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

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew. Most backup software is fundamentally badly designed. I keep thinking I should write some that actually works properly, based on my experience working in data recovery...

[zz]

if you find something, please let me know :)

time for dvd-r maybe?

[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...

comment from DAR's author

[(Anonymous)]

I like your feedback! By mistake I found it here. Sorry to reply to it:

for information, DAR does the test of a *whole* archive. After the "long enough time you've spent", I don't know where you have seen that it can make the testing of a single slice (this is a non sense as a given file inside the archive could be split between two or more slices, and CRC is computed file by file). As usual, dar starts by the first slice, then it needs the last.

OK, I Promise, if I find again (by mistake of course) one of your feedback, I will not reply to it :-)

Denis Corbin.