[ale] Full filesystem backup to CD-R (fwd)

[Mike Panetta]

http://www.linux-backup.net/app.gwif.html

Has a list of backup programs that will do what you want.  Check there.


Mike



On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:50, tslane at attbi.com wrote:
> I would think you could use mknod to create a pipe 
> w/backgrounded split (& possibly gzip) for mkisofs then 
> just burn & remove each split subfile.
> 
> would that not work?
> Geoffery,
> 
> Doesn't this constrain you to only backing up filesystems that are < one
> cd-r's capacity?  I'm looking for something that will recognize that it
> won't all fit on one cd and split up automatically.  I think with your
> approach, I'd have to verify each time to make sure I wasn't overfilling
> the iso.  Of course, I could be wrong.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> > John Wells wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of a good, relatively easy utility that allows the
> >> backing up of filesystems or subsets to CD-R?  I'm looking for
> >> something that won't take days to understand fully or hack to get
> >> working.  I was taking a look at Mondo, but having some issues.
> >>
> >> Anything out there you've used successfully?
> >
> > mkisofs -T -l -r -o foo.iso /path-to-the-fs-to-backup
> > cdrecord speed=$YOURSPEED dev=$YOURDEV foo.iso
> >
> > Throw that into a shell script and you've got your utility...
> >
> > Doesn't take long to learn and works. :)
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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