From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 1 16:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05943 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 16:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05938 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 16:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA13198; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Benedikt Stockebrand cc: Andrew Bromage , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD writers as a backup medium In-Reply-To: <874svxm0rl.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Aug 1998, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote: > Andrew Bromage 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message