How shall I do backups?

[ciphergoth]

OK, I've used DAR long enough to know that it's fundamentally broken. I just gave up on it at the point where I'd written CD 1 of a two CD archive, and said "please test the integrity of this slice of the archive". It responded "last slice is not present, please provide before integrity can be tested".

So I'm not using that any more.

What the hell can I use that does proper multi-archive backups for CDs?

Comments

[lovingboth]

Ghost can cope with Linux partititions (although it writes them as a lump rather than just the 'useful bits' as it can with FAT etc) and I expect Drive Image can too.

But they both run on DOS...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

You're full of helpful advice...

[lovingboth]

The thought process went something like a) they work, b) it'd only take a couple of MB to have such a partition (in fact, at least one of them runs off a floppy boot disk), c) they work, d) I'm not aware of anything that properly backs up files in use, so you have to take the machine down anyway, e) they work.

Still, for some people, working is a low priority. I should know...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Making a raw dump of the partition can be done perfectly well with "dd"... I want something which supports eg extraction of individual files from the archive.