Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:47:46 -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: <0116b0048060d12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <02e344708060d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> References: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com> <02e344708060d12FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com>
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On Sunday 13 January 2002 01:08 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> I have a pretty comprehensive "cdburn" program that I've written and mean
I meant "cdbackup." Jeez, can't remember the name of my own program.
> 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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