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Package: dvbackup (0.0.4rj1-6.1)

backup tool using MiniDV camcorders

Dvbackup hides the data it receives on standard input in a perfectly legal DV (digital video) stream. This allows you to use your DV camcorder and your DV cardridges as a potent mass storage system. Obviously, your system and your camcorder have to be connected via IEEE1394 (aka Firewire, iLink).

Current digital camcorders can save approximately 13 GB of data on those tiny DV cartridges at a speed of 3.6 MB/sec. That's faster than most DAT streamers which only work at 1 MB/sec or less. dvbackup can not use all of the data, but 10 GB should be good enough for everyone.

To bring the data on tape, you have to use an additional utility, called dvconnect, which is included in libdv-bin.

This packages also contains rsbep, an implementation of a special version of the Reed-Solomon FEC (forward error correction) algorithm. rsbep also spreads the bytes of the resulting blocks out to give some protection against burst errors (e.g from tape-recordings). It should be used in a pipe together with dvbackup (before dvbackup while encoding and after it while decoding). rsbep should be sufficient to make the LP mode of your camcorder usable. This mode, which puts about 50% more data on the cardridge would otherwise be too error-prone. rsbep is the fast implementation in i386 assembler, rsbepC uses pure C and is significantly slower (about ten times).

Website: <http://dvbackup.sourceforge.net/> and <http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/rsbep.html>.

Tags: System Administration: Backup and Restoration, Hardware Enablement: Digital Camera, Role: Program, Purpose: Storing, Works with: Files

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 135.9 kB552 kB [list of files]
amd64 131.0 kB544 kB [list of files]
armel 131.8 kB540 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 132.3 kB536 kB [list of files]
hppa 133.2 kB544 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 132.0 kB556 kB [list of files]
i386 132.6 kB504 kB [list of files]
ia64 140.5 kB576 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 129.8 kB476 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 131.5 kB482 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 127.8 kB536 kB [list of files]
mips 131.8 kB548 kB [list of files]
mipsel 132.0 kB548 kB [list of files]
powerpc 136.0 kB552 kB [list of files]
s390 131.1 kB540 kB [list of files]
sparc 129.9 kB540 kB [list of files]