automated DVD backup *not yet begun*
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:04 pm
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but I didn't want to be limited to only one version of ZM.
Hello, I'm interested in writing a script that would take a DVD+-R's worth of the oldest events and dumping them onto a DVDR if an empty medium is detected in the drive, before deleting the events from mysql. The dream here is to cron it, and just pop a DVDr in every morning and have it fill itself up. I'd be leaving the filesystem structure intact on the DVDr, allowing zmaudit to clean up the HDD.
That leads us to the requirement for an offline viewer, which I will also build.
So where do I start? Perl? Bash scripts? C? Python? I was quite good at Turing in high school and did a puny but elegant smattering of C in university. I figure that I am eventually going to invest the time learning everything that I can about all of these languages, but three months into picking up Linux, while rewarding, has involved a lot of dead ends. With guidance, i probably could have learned everything in one month.
So, given my goals, would someone be able to suggest the most appropriate avenue for me to pursue? Or at least eliminate the obvious dead ends? Option 3 is flame wars. It'd be entertaining, at least.
PS: incidentally, is there a way that I can watch all of my cameras in playback in a montage-like screen, where they are time-synced (so's I can follow action from one camera to another as it is played back, instead of hunting events down one by one). My offline viewer will totally introduce this feature, if it does not yet exist, and I will make million$. Million$.
Hello, I'm interested in writing a script that would take a DVD+-R's worth of the oldest events and dumping them onto a DVDR if an empty medium is detected in the drive, before deleting the events from mysql. The dream here is to cron it, and just pop a DVDr in every morning and have it fill itself up. I'd be leaving the filesystem structure intact on the DVDr, allowing zmaudit to clean up the HDD.
That leads us to the requirement for an offline viewer, which I will also build.
So where do I start? Perl? Bash scripts? C? Python? I was quite good at Turing in high school and did a puny but elegant smattering of C in university. I figure that I am eventually going to invest the time learning everything that I can about all of these languages, but three months into picking up Linux, while rewarding, has involved a lot of dead ends. With guidance, i probably could have learned everything in one month.
So, given my goals, would someone be able to suggest the most appropriate avenue for me to pursue? Or at least eliminate the obvious dead ends? Option 3 is flame wars. It'd be entertaining, at least.
PS: incidentally, is there a way that I can watch all of my cameras in playback in a montage-like screen, where they are time-synced (so's I can follow action from one camera to another as it is played back, instead of hunting events down one by one). My offline viewer will totally introduce this feature, if it does not yet exist, and I will make million$. Million$.