CD Burning Software: Updating files
 

I'm looking for a Linux CD Burning program that will allow me to do the same thing as I did in Windows.

Here is what I did in windows:

When backing up a folder of my data (say, My Documents with all of it's subfolders, etc) I would stick in a CD-R call up my burning program and copy the data. The really nifty thing (and this is what I'm looking for in a Linux burning program) is that in the course of a day when I modified a few files throughout my My Documents (and I have a lot of data in My Documents) I could simply go back to my burning program drag my entire My Documents folder over to the same CD-R and it would only write the changed and added files. Obviously since this wasn't a CD-RW every updated file was an incrimental loss of space but since I only change a few files every day it meant I could use the CD-R as my active backup for a long time. Best, the ability of this program to compare what was already on the CD and what I was copying saved me a lot of hunting around for the few modified files myself.

I haven't found a similiar feature in a Linux CD burning program, but I'm hoping there is one out there that one of you people can point me toward. As it is if I burn my documents to a CD-R from Linux and it takes up 300 MB and then I modify a few files and back up the next day it would be another 300 MB, not just the few MB of files changed.

One might ask why I'm not using CD-RW. The reason is that my burning drive doesn't seem to like working with CD-RW, so it is less hassle if I could get a CD-R to work as I desire.

There is a name for this feature in the windows burning program . . . but it escapes my mind at the moment. I think it was something like using a saved session . . . but I'm not sure if I've the name right.

Anyhow, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Have you tried k3b? It's the most advanced burning proggie for Linux, and afaik it supports incremental backups.

Regards,

Samsara

How do I do an incremental?
 

Thanks for the reply.

No, I hadn't tried K3b. Previously I had used Gnome Toaster. At your suggestion I've tried K3b. It looks pretty good.

However, I still don't know how to use K3b to make an incremental backup. I took all of my documents and made a "Session" out of them. I burned this session to a CD-R. Then I went in and added another file to my folder. Then I went back to K3b, loaded up the session that I had saved, and told it to burn to the CD-R again, assuming that it would just add the new file. But K3b wanted a new CD.

What am I doing wrong?

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks