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Subject: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?
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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

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