Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:14:47 +0200, Andrea Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > I use dar (not tar, dar) > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dan Anderson wrote: >> I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run dd >> but the man page was unintelligib

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-07 Thread Andrea Tasso
I use dar (not tar, dar) On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dan Anderson wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run > dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > -Dan > > > -

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could > run dd but the man page was unintelligible. How do you plan to dd 40 GiB of disk to 650 MiB of CD? > Can anyone offer any suggestions? Tape

Re: Looking for backup solutions - 40GB

2003-10-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Dan Anderson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could > > run > > dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any > > suggestions? if you really wanted

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Anderson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could > run > dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? Maybe you want to take a look at partimage. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andrea

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-05 Thread Neo
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:48, Dan Anderson wrote: > I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run > dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any > suggestions? Hi Dan, I run 'cd / && tar cvf - . | gzip - > backup.tar.gz' which makes a compressed f

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have a look to `backup2l' package. Dan Anderson wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u