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I'm evaluating use of Blu-Ray discs for archiving long term backups. The idea is to periodically schedule the burning of /var/lib/backuppc in a new session of the disc, avoiding to close the session, in order to allow further writing.
Do you think it is a good idea? Do you have any suggest? Should I do my own cron job, using tools as cdrecord/wodim, or there is already something ready?
Thank you in advance.
Regards.
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GP

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Germano Paciocco
<germano.paciocco < at > gmail.com> wrote:
I'm evaluating use of Blu-Ray discs for archiving long term backups. The
idea is to periodically schedule the burning of /var/lib/backuppc in a new
session of the disc, avoiding to close the session, in order to allow
further writing.
Do you think it is a good idea? Do you have any suggest? Should I do my own
cron job, using tools as cdrecord/wodim, or there is already something
ready?

I wouldn't expect filesystems that work on blu-ray to preserve the
hardlinks and perhaps some of the other attributes needed for the
backuppc files. You could use the 'archive host' setup or the
BackupPC_tarCreate command line tool to generate standard tar files
for storage on other media. You don't get any de-duplication that way
but you can perform a restore with standard tools.

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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

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On 2012-01-17 15:04, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Germano Paciocco
<germano.paciocco < at > gmail.com> wrote:
I'm evaluating use of Blu-Ray discs for archiving long term backups. The
idea is to periodically schedule the burning of /var/lib/backuppc in a new
session of the disc, avoiding to close the session, in order to allow
further writing.

I wouldn't expect filesystems that work on blu-ray to preserve the
hardlinks and perhaps some of the other attributes needed for the
backuppc files.

Indeed. This falls under the well-discussed topic of "how to duplicate the
pool." See any the archives of this list, any random month. Short answer:
it's not fun.

If you really want to archive the entire pool and pc structure, I suggest
burning a binary copy of the unmounted pool filesystem to the Blu-ray disk.
Make an LVM snapshot, unmount the snapshot, then use dd to make a binary
copy to the blu-ray ISO filesystem. If you want to recover from this, dd it
back, or mount it with "mount -o loop".

Regards,
Tyler

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