Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem? Message-ID: <20090124034209.GA31215@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090123091407.0485db35.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090123011043.GA86638@thought.org> <497954FE.8050206@gmail.com> <20090123074516.GC96433@thought.org> <20090123091407.0485db35.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > > > You can always try to tar it up directly > > > > > > tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ > > > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > I do tar ~kline --bzip'd-- and scp it around. 3 times/week. I > > want my most important stuff, ~/[DOT] files too, on a DVD. > > Y'never know when a meteor will destroy the Earth... . > > Using tar onto acd may not work, but utilizing atapicam, it could > eventually work with cd directly: > > % tar cvjf /dev/cd0 ~/.* ~/devel ~/music ~/texts > > But this does not (!) make the media mountable! You may see that > as a disadvantage, but maybe it's not: You can access it now > directly without needing to mount it, and you can extract from > it by selection, e. g. > > % tar xvjf /dev/cd0 ~/music > > to only extract the music/ subtree. > > The tar "file system" is best for interoperability because (if > I may say this) every UNIX-like OS can read tar, no matter if you > put it n discs, disks, tapes or even hard disks or USB sticks. > > Hm. Thanks for the idea. I never considered putting a tarball directly onto a DVD, but it makes sense. On my ancient Kayak my 4mm tape drive still works, and I have that cron'd too. (Trouble with the tape drive is that its tapes won't be readable except on this drive... But the DVD stores will.) gary > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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