Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:25:10 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Brunelle <frobbnicate42@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <20020113042510.87902.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello world, I was wondering how I would backup all of my files onto CDs. I have several Gigs worth of data and CDs are probably my best course of action. My CD burner works fine and I use it all the time. I was planning on just trying to write to the device (tar cLjvf 716800 /dev/acd1c *) but this doesn't work -- I really didn't expect that it would but I had to try. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to break up a tar archive on a size boundary ... aka backup0.tar, backup1.tar, etc. All broken at the 700MB boundary so I can make iso images out of them and then burn them to disk. I could do this by hand by renaming the files when I am prompted to change media by tar... but I am not sure if this would allow me to recover the files later. I am also not sure if this is the best way. I have tried to find some information on how this would be done but have been unsuccessful. If anyone knows where I can find this information and could point me at it I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Kevin Brunelle -- "The thing I love most about deadlines is the wonderful WHOOSHing sound they make as they go past." - Douglas Adams. "This above all, to thine own self be true, and it shall follow as night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ~ Shakespeare ~ ===== Don't open your eyes, you won't like what you see, The devils of truth steal the souls of the free. Don't open your eyes, take it from me, I have found you can find happiness in slavery. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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