Re: [Sheflug] Scripting backups to cdrom.

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:18:50PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> For a basic backup try using multicd - it is not the best tool,
> though it does work. After that you can have time to play with scripting.

Probably violates the 'do not split $HOME' rule though.

> [aside: The packing problem is a varient of the Pigeon Hole Problem is
>         it not? ...and thus Turing reducible to the Halting Problem. ]

Doubtful - we're talking about a one-dimensional packing problem. That's
surely solvable, albeit at exponential computing time. The general packing
problem, maybe. That wouldn't cover, for example, packing spheres - that
is very difficult IIRC.

Most packing problems are hard due to the inability to re-allocate free
space. We don't have that problem on filesystems.

Cheers,

Alex.

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