Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:47:50 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about ISO filesystems and CD-R's Message-ID: <20041102134750.GA58940@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1041103000946.19536A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20041102120103.2C85216A4D6@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1041103000946.19536A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:39:00AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: : but you can keep on adding further ISO images to a CD-R (or CD-RW) until : it's full, using mkisofs + burncd at least. Very handy here for certain : types of backups, especially on a remote box visited weekly. Ah, that's exactly what I'm looking for. I bought a bunch of those mini-CD-R's, thinking I didn't want to waste a regular CD-R to backup 100 megs of my laptop files. But if I can keep dumping iso's from mkisofs onto the same CD-R, effectively erasing it and adding a new one and just taking up more space cumulatively, then I can keep the CD-R in the drive, run backups every week, and only replace it when it is full, right? : My cdappend script's full of paranoid parameter and error checking and : such, but is based on this simple and likely more illustrative one: Thanks for the script. I'll put it to good use. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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