About:
multicd provides an easy way to backup a large number of files to multiple CDs or DVDs. Give multicd the files/directories you want backed up and it will create as many CDs or DVDs as it needs to, prompting the user to put in a new disc whenever needed. It can be configured to run in a multi-threading mode, where it will burn one image to a disc while it is copying files to another image. This feature can be disabled for slower machines.

Author:
Dan [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.50/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://danborn.net/multicd/
Tar/GZ:
http://danborn.net/multicd/multicd-1.7.5.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://danborn.net/multicd/index.html#change_log
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/multicd

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Backup

Dependencies: [change]
cdrtools (Development branch) (required)
Perl (Default branch) (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.7.5	02-Jul-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] this is it!
by be - Aug 8th 2003 20:29:41

dont do anything to it. it works!
i couldnt get to the joast.ca website to try that product, but i've tried a load of others that have flash gui's and not so flash gui'z. some gpl & some commercial.

i had been happily using my own cdrecord script for months but hadnt stumbled upon a way to automate the burning of gigs of files. this does that across multiple cd's and it does it in the native ext2fs format, and creates an index file.

how easy is backing up 30gig of mp3 when you just tell everyone in the house to swap the cd when the tray is open!

best cd backup tool i've seen on any platform, good stuff.

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[»] good tool. not very uf
by Chris Siegler - May 15th 2002 05:07:25

I like the program. I just wanted to backup my /home and /etc to cd-r media, but that required ~5 disks. I was able to create 5 images (using ext2 filesystem instead of iso9660) that I burned to disks. The only problem I had was trying to burn one disk at a time in the default mode, which failed when cdrecord returned an error and the program got stuck. Could use a curses interface and be more user friendly, but it's a nice tool.

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