Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:39:32 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i? Message-ID: <20041109133932.GB41233@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Hi, I am sure I don't have to reinvent this wheel. I have a several FreeBSD 5.2.1 servers. They are all built the same. The disk is partitioned only into / and swap. It is so easy for me to backup an entire box by doing: cd / tar czf - / | ssh wash@backup.server 'cat Box1-backup.tgz' Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah... So every night I just mount a blank CD and let a cron job do the backup;) I know there could be gotchas, like when the CD is not empty, etc. Is anyone already doing this? Are you willing to share the methodology? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D+ Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you =66rom enjoying it.
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