[PLUG] Backups <again>

[Aaron Burt]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:42:53PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> What I'd like to do is create a total mirror of my hard drive once a
> month or so, and also once a month or so a total backup of my home
> folder. In between I'd like to be able to do click, click, click and
> make an incremental backup of ~/ to a DVD drive every once in a while
> after I have created new data that I don't want to lose.

Have you looked at Mondo?  Once you figure out the commandline options,
it'll back everything up to a bootable set of DVDs that can restore your
machine from bare-metal.  It'll also do incremental backups.  I don't
know if it makes good use of dual-layer media, but I've found it very
useful in general.

Admittedly, I haven't tried a full restore, just (I think) file-by-file,
but it's pretty nifty.

Which reminds me, I gotta back up my home server...