From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 21:31:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC92516A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:31:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outside.taborandtashell.net (sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.18.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C3443D3F for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:31:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net) Received: (qmail 27857 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2005 13:31:53 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.9?) (tkelly@192.168.0.9) by 192.168.0.2 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 3 Jan 2005 13:31:53 -0800 Message-ID: <41D9B9AE.6090700@taborandtashell.net> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Best way to back up to CD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:31:59 -0000 Hello, I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way? Specifically, I have read the into to backups in the Handbook and it says that dump/restore is superior to tar, but it looks like dump was only intended for tape drives. Am I reading this right? Thank You. -- Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net http://tabor.taborandtashell.net