DARomizer ver. 0.7 a Perl script front end for DAR (Disk Archiver)
Copyright 2004 by Michael W. Cocke <cocke@catherders.com>
DARomizer is released under the terms of the Gnu Public License 2.0
(See GPL-ver2-a.txt or http://www.gnu.org for details)
DARomizer was created specifically to speed up large backups
under Linux. DARomizer is a traffic cop that manages both DAR (to
build slices) and growisofs (to burn each slice to a cd or dvd).
DARomizer allows both programs to run in parallel; while one slice
is being burned to the media by growisofs, the next slice is being
prepared by DAR. This results in a faster backup the bigger the
backup, the bigger the time savings.
http://www.catherders.com/mwc/daromizer07.tar.gz
Here's the changelog:
version .7 - Added verify of burned slice. This is an OPTION because
it can take a long time (1 hour +/-). See the
configuration section of daromizer - set $verify to 0 to
skip verify, 1 to perform verify.
- Rethought timing issue - dar can get VERY FAR ahead of
burning under certain circumstances... exhausting disk
space with unburned slices. ungood. split off a daemon
(named darmon, pardon the pun), so we can pause and resume
dar even in the middle of a burn, rather than being
restricted to before and after a burn. When dar ends
normally, darmon will automatically end soon (within
10 minutes) after - nothing special is required.
- Started cleanup (internal). I want to make it easier for
non-perl programmers to use daromizer, and easier to use
burners other than growisofs. This is NOT done yet, just
started!
- After I updated my cdrtools packages, burning a DVD with
iso9660 format failed. switching to udf format solved
that problem. DARomizer now defaults to burning DVDs with
growisofs in udf format. If you have an older version of
cdrtools, you may need to change this back to iso9660.
- Made the cleanup after a user abort (SIGINT, ctrl+c)
automatic (IE, dar and darmon are killed, /tmp directory
is cleaned up.)
Mike-
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