Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de> Cc: Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD writers as a backup medium Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808011923550.13140-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <874svxm0rl.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de>
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On 1 Aug 1998, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
> Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>
> > Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on using a CD writer with
> > FreeBSD-stable as a backup medium.
>
> Writing a CD-ROM on a machine that is doing other things as well is
> bound to cause trouble. Your backups will be plain unreliable.
My experience indicates that your statements are wrong. I piped
the output of mkisofs to cdrecord in one xterm while doing level
0 dumps of about 4 gigs of files in another. Halfway through
burning the CD /etc/daily started and called /etc/security with
its `find'. The CD that was produced has been used to install,
or upgrade to, 2.2.7 on three different machines so far.
I have two 4gig and a 1gig hard drive, the tape drive, the CD
burner, and a CD reader on a single Adaptec 2940UW.
YMMV.
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