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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen),
	Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:29:18 -0500
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On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:32 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Hello world,
> >
> > I was wondering how I would backup all of my files
> > onto CDs.
>
> A usually-trustworthy poster tells us that the method most likely to
> work without bugs involves dump/restore instead of tar/pax/cpio/afio
> (though people use them).

They are all ways of putting bits on CDs; I can't imagine why one would work 
without bugs are more or less than the other.

It is helpful to verify a CD just after writing, though.  (My cdbackup 
program--for which I already have enough testers, thanks, but I hope to 
release it in a week or two if all goes well--is capable of doing this, FWIW.)


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