From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 2:42:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290F537B405 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-228.wobline.de [212.68.69.239]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id f9H9gQ219013 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:42:26 +0200 Received: from howie.ncptiddische.net (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9H9heQ05461 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:43:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from there (howie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by howie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9H9hUd00554 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:43:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Message-Id: <200110170943.f9H9hUd00554@howie.ncptiddische.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nils Holland Organization: Ti Systems To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: System Backup To CD-R Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:43:29 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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