Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:29:18 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <0eb4b3629220d12FE4@mail4.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <0ed70exd19.70e@localhost.localdomain> References: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com> <0ed70exd19.70e@localhost.localdomain>
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On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:32 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Hello world,
> >
> > I was wondering how I would backup all of my files
> > onto CDs.
>
> A usually-trustworthy poster tells us that the method most likely to
> work without bugs involves dump/restore instead of tar/pax/cpio/afio
> (though people use them).
They are all ways of putting bits on CDs; I can't imagine why one would work
without bugs are more or less than the other.
It is helpful to verify a CD just after writing, though. (My cdbackup
program--for which I already have enough testers, thanks, but I hope to
release it in a week or two if all goes well--is capable of doing this, FWIW.)
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