Which Cdr Backup Software Is Best?

Having used Linux for the past 3 months myself I finally convinced my father to make the switch from XP to SuSE.
He is however no Linux guru (or computer guru at all) and needs an automated system to make backups of certain directories to a CDROM.

Can anyone recommend a reliable program that takes all changed and new files from certain directories (preferably /home/dad) and burn them to a CDR by the click of ONE button?

It's important that it gets all new files in a directory by itself, and that no drag'n'drop is required, as that significantly increases the risk of some files/directories being left out.

Any recommendations for such a backup system will be *highly* appreciated. Thanks!

-Yalla

I think you look for rsync, it is cli work.
If all files are in an dir you can burn them with cdrecord to a cdr.(mkisofs first)
This all could you write in a shell script and place it in a cronjob.
So even without the "click of ONE button".

rsync directory->mkisofs from backup directory->burn backup dir to cdr with cdrecord.

Thanks much for sharing your insight!

Getting to work right away and will report back with a success-story (hopefully )

-Yalla

You might also have a look a KDar. This is a GUI program that uses the dar utilites on the backend. It will allow you to set up backup jobs and to specify which directories/files are part of that job. It will also divide the backup into CD or DVD size parts if the backup is too big to fit on a single CD or DVD. Then use K3b to burn these files onto CD or DVD.

Once the backup job is setup in KDar it is a simple one click operation to do the backup. And burning a single file to CD or DVD is very easy in K3b. Also you can set up incremental backups that are based on a full backup job. So you would do a full backup and then setup an incremental job based on the backup and then running the incremental job will get any new/changed files. Between the full backup and all incrementals after that full backup you have everything backed up. Standard IT practice is to do weekly or simi-weekly full backups and daily incrementals. You can also decide how much compression to use. More compression means slower, high CPU usage backup with smaller archive sizes.