Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Erik Bågfors]

You have to copy to a directory, then burn it to a cdr/cdrw as a separate step.

/Erik


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:07:22 +0200, Ari Torhamo
<ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> 
> >> I actually am in a need of a backup program, which would work with
> >> CD-RWs too and could do incremental (is this the right word?) backups...
> >> Am I talking myself here into using rsync? Maybe I'll take a look at it,
> >> but propably it would require much guru level tweaking, which I'm not
> >> able to do and I would just get angry and frustrated :-) Yes, I'm
> >> smiling, but I'm getting angry already just thinking about it... I would
> >> just want to clikck some stylish and friedly Gnome buttons and see
> >> things go right by themselves.
> >
> >I've used DAR in the past. It is command line but it has the **BEST**
> >doco I've ever seen. Step by step plain english. And it works.
> >
> >http://dar.linux.free.fr/
> >
> >And as others have mentioned there's backuppc:
> >
> >http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html
> >
> >But I always just end up back rsyncing my home directory onto my
> >server. It's just sooooooooooo easy. :)
> >
> 
> I just did my first succesfull rsync backup. Well, I just copied some
> directories from one place to another on my hard disk :-) I tried to
> copy to a CD-RW too, but it didn't work. I got the following error
> message:
> 
> ERROR: destination must be a directory when copying more than 1 file
> rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at
> main.c(371)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
> 
> I tried to use hdc, cdrw, cdrom, cdrom0, cdrom1, with and without sudo
> as a destination. I also tried creating a directory to the disk, because
> the error message above said something about it. None of this worked.
> Man pages of rsync say nothing about syncing to CD-Rs or CD-RWs. Is this
> supposed to work?
> 
> Anyone? :-)
> 
> Ari
> 
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