Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:32:35 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: imnotmork_listas@area3.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup to CD-R Message-ID: <20050818153235.GA97844@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <2510096559.20050818103603@area3.net> References: <2510096559.20050818103603@area3.net>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:36:03AM +0200, imnotmork_listas@area3.net wrote:
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> Hi! I was wondering if somebody can give me a clue to how to
> schedulle regular backups to CD-R. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.
If your dumps are so small they will fit on CD-R, you could do the
following:
- make a dump
dump -0 -a -L -f - /usr |gzip -c >usrdump.gz
- use mkisofs to make an ISO file containing your dump
mkisofs -r -pad -o usrdump.iso usrdump.gz
- burn the ISO to CD-R with cdrecord or burncd.
If the gzipped dump file is larger than a CD, you could use split(1), to
make CD-sized chenks, and burn them to different CD's.
> By now, i can asume that the best choice is to use 'dump' but i
> can't realize how to use the CD-R as a 'writeable' device.
If you want to use a CD as a kind of harddisk, you could use an UDF
filesystem. See udfclient in ports.
If the dumps are big, upgrade to a DVD burner and use growisofs(1) to
burn the data to DVD.
Roland
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