Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:43:29 +0200 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: System Backup To CD-R Message-ID: <200110170943.f9H9hUd00554@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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Hallo everyone! well, I have not been that kind of guy who regularely backs up his system - at least until recently, when a catastrphic hardware failure made my isnatll my system all from scratch again, which took me about a whole weekend. After this experience, I'm looking for a way to prevent this to happen again. Of course, this can be done by taking regular backups, but the question that remains is *how* to do that. It seems to me that backing up a FreeBSD to tape drive is probably the most widely done and easiest thing. However, since I don't have the appropriate hardware to do that, it's not an option for me. The thing best suited for backups in my computer is probably the ATAPI CD-R drive. So, has anyone experience with backing up a FreeBSD system to CD-R? I figure that I could do it all by hand - copy as many files as fit on a CD-R, then take a new one and repeat until all files have been dealt with. This is, however, a time-consuming task if done by hand. So I think I need a script or something that does this more or less automatically, so that I only have to change the CD-Rs. Does anyone know if such a script exists? Or is anyone using CD-Rs for backup purposes and has some hints for me how it could best be done? Any suggestions are appreciated! Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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