Backing up to an external FAT32 disk

[Derek Broughton]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:28:06 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>> 
>> > I am trying to backup a 98% full RAID array (some 100GB of stuff) onto
>> > a 400GB FAT32 USB2 external hard drive. I don't have space on the RAID
>> > itself to create the archive, nor on my 3G root FS.
>> ...
>> > Friends have suggested using tar with -FL and a call to mktemp to
>> > split the archive into randomly-named 4G chunks, but then I can't see
>> > how I'd restore it again; how will tar work out what the next volume
>> > to examine is?
>> ...
>> > I'm not wedded to using tar - I'd consider dump or something as well.
>>  
>> kdar, using 'dar', has a very neat ability to slice its output into any
>> size
>> you want.  It's intended for archiving to CD/DVD, but I don't see why it
>> wouldn't work with a 400G drive.  Of course, it's a KDE app...
> 
> It's a great program. Unfortunately, unmaintained.

My understanding was that kdar itself is maintained, but libdar is a
problem.  Personally, I wish Ubuntu would adopt kdar/libdar and bring them
up-to-date.
-- 
derek