Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is the sort of thing bacula was made for - physical backups spread out over multiple removable media (tapes mostly, but it can work with optical drives).
www.bacula.org/free-tape-backup-software/
It tracks where it puts your files, so it does have its own db that also needs backing up. But if you want to restore without needing to search manually through dozens of disks this is what you need.
traches@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Hey cool, I hadn’t heard of bacula! Looks like a really robust project. I did look into tape storage, but I can’t find a tape drive for a reasonable price that doesn’t have a high jank factor (internal, 5.25" drives with weird enterprise connectors and such).
I’m digging through their docs and I can’t find anything about optical media, except for a page in the manual for an old version. Am I missing something? It seems heavly geared towards tapes.