Further aargh

[ciphergoth]

Woke up, so thought I might as well do what I'd done all this to achieve, and play with my new CD rewriter.

In all the excitement, I had disconnected it while debugging the problem, and forgot to reconnect it before putting it back in the computer cupboard. Now I have tidied up and put away all my "fiddling-with-computer-hardware" setup and put the machine back in its inaccessible little hole.

Fuckety-fuckety-fuck!

Update And I can't work out what software I should be using to back my system up to CD-RWs. Minimum requirements:

• verifying a disk should not require comparing it to the filesystem, it should have proper CRCs or similar
• Each disk should be independently restorable
• supports incremental backups, without needing the previous backup to be present
• GUI absent or optional, supports unattended operation
• supports compression
• open source of course

It would be nice if it did a good job of preserving information as well, eg extended attributes, deleted files, /dev and so forth.

Further update: I'm giving DAR a go. U Works like a charm. Everything seems to work. Have made a backup of some stuff, and tested it. Haven't tried the soundcard yet though (a parecky is required first). Now to go for coffee with purplerabbits.