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Subject: Re: Best way to back up to CD?
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800
Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> wrote:

>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.
>
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