Hi,
I've been thinking about something over the last few
days and was wondering if it classifies as "sane" -
opinions please!
I have about 500Mb of variable data (theres only 4
console only users and we arent mp3 freaks!) and a
CDRW. Would it be worth setting up a script+cron
job to do the following nightly:-
1/ tar+gzip /home AND /etc AND /var/mail AND
/root/scripts
1.a/ make sure it'll fit on a CD
2/ make an iso file to fit files w/ mkisofs
3/ mount image using loopback
4/ put archives from (1) in image
5/ erase CDRW w/ cdrecord
6/ write image to cdrw w/ cdrecord
7/ clean up.
Do this nightly on a "7 disk cycle manually via changing
the disk before I go to bed and let it do it at 2am" (TM)
methodology ;) If I left the disk in and/or forgot, it'd
still backup the disk. I'd do a manual archive CD-R copy
once a week too (this is what I'm doing at the moment).
I (unfortunately) dont know the life cycle of average CDRW
media (Sony to be precise), so I dont know if this is
practical. It's a bog standard 2.2r3 box btw running kernel
2.2.something (I forget which!)
Any suggestions/comments/flames etc?
Cheers,
- Chris.
