{"id":578,"date":"2011-01-09T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2011-01-09T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T01:28:38","slug":"backing-up-data-to-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Data to DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raw photograph files are too big to keep on my hard drive, so I archive them to DVD every so often.  I make three copies of each disc and distribute two of them to family or friends.  This provides protection from computer failure and site disaster.<br \/>\nTo do this, I copy files to a new directory until it reaches DVD capacity, around 4.7 Gb.  Then I use Brasero to create an ISO, copy the ISO to the backup computer (that has a working DVD burner) and make the discs.  I also use CD Label Gen and a script to make a cover that has a picture from the archive set and a list of the contents.  Here&#8217;s the script:<br \/>\n<code>#!\/bin\/sh<\/code><br \/>\n<code># convert img.jpeg cover.eps<\/code><br \/>\n<code>cdlabelgen \\<br \/>\n--category \"Family Photos\" \\<br \/>\n--subcategory \"25 October - 12 December 2010\" \\<br \/>\n--cover-image cover.eps \\<br \/>\n--cover-image-scaleratio 0 \\<br \/>\n--slim-case \\<br \/>\n--no-date \\<br \/>\n--items-from-file items.txt \\<br \/>\n--output-file photos-label.ps<br \/>\necho ghostscript photos-label.ps<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nThe contents are listed in a text file called items.txt.  It looks like this:<\/p>\n<pre>{#M}2010 Oct 25 Test video\r\n{#M}     Nov  9 Fall colors\r\n{#M}         13 \"\r\n{#M}         15 Japanese Maple in Fog\r\n{#M}         17 Fallen Japanese Maple leaves\r\n{#M}         24 Birthday cupcakes\r\n{#M}         25 First snow; pies; Thanksgiving\r\n{#M}     Dec  3 Camera test shots; fireplace<\/pre>\n<p>The funny M&#8217;s at the start of each line signal cdlabelgen to use a monospaced font so the dates and descriptions line up.<br \/>\nI put the script and text file and output postscript in the root of the DVD, so if I need to make another copy, the label is already there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raw photograph files are too big to keep on my hard drive, so I archive them to DVD every so often. I make three copies of each disc and distribute two of them to family or friends. This provides protection from computer failure and site disaster. To do this, I copy files to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}