Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:08:35 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <02e344708060d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com>
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I have a pretty comprehensive "cdburn" program that I've written and mean to
package up into a port. If you'd be willing to be an "alpha tester" for me
I'll send it to you. It make the process pretty automatic, and support
burncd or cdrecord; cpio, afio, and plain text backups; has special code to
allow you to backup a live-mountable cfs (encrypted) file system if you use
cfs, and scads of other features.
Let me know if you are interested.
On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:25 pm, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I was wondering how I would backup all of my files
> onto CDs. I have
> several Gigs worth of data and CDs are probably my
> best course of
> action.
>
> My CD burner works fine and I use it all the time. I
> was planning on
> just trying to write to the device (tar cLjvf 716800
> /dev/acd1c *) but
> this doesn't work -- I really didn't expect that it
> would but I had to
> try. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to
> break up a tar
> archive on a size boundary ... aka backup0.tar,
> backup1.tar, etc. All
> broken at the 700MB boundary so I can make iso images
> out of them and
> then burn them to disk. I could do this by hand by
> renaming the files
> when I am prompted to change media by tar... but I am
> not sure if this
> would allow me to recover the files later. I am also
> not sure if this is
> the best way.
>
> I have tried to find some information on how this
> would be done but have
> been unsuccessful. If anyone knows where I can find
> this information and
> could point me at it I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kevin Brunelle
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