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

Re: comment from DAR's author

[(Anonymous)]

yes, you are right, it could be possible to add a secondary CRC global to each slice. This would allow the testing of each slice individualy.

For me it is just a simple feature to add, not really the "mistake at the very deepest level of its design" I 've read previously. 8^D

Anyway, thanks for feedback.

Denis Corbin.

Re: comment from DAR's author

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Sure, but I think it indicates that you and I think of slices in a different way. You mainly think about operating on all slices of the archive simultaneously. I generally don't have the disk space to store them all at once. You think of slices as fragments of a whole. I think of them as largely independent collections of file information that happened to come from the same archiving operation. I think my approach is the correct one because it makes an individual slice much more useful.

I thought you CRC'd each file separately, no?