Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
If directory is too deep or file name to be extremely long there will be issue (I had with netscape cache file) tar them for peace of mind On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:39:26PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog to

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, February 20, Rich Renomeron did write: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't > > seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it > > backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddum

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Rich Renomeron
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't > seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it > backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home. > There is nothing in the ma

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread csj
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 07:38, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: > > Hi all > > > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the > > mkisofs prog to create the image. Is it possible that i culd > > make an exact copy of my files, i

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:12:09PM -0800, Steve Cooper wrote: > I wrote a set of Python scripts that have been working pretty well for me. > Input > is a list of directories for each cdr and exclusions specified as regular > expressions in config files. Output is a bunch of tarred and gzipped >

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Steve Cooper
I wrote a set of Python scripts that have been working pretty well for me. Input is a list of directories for each cdr and exclusions specified as regular expressions in config files. Output is a bunch of tarred and gzipped archives. The script then moves the archives to one or more cdrs via mki

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:38:07 -0600 (CST) Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're interested in doing backups to CD-R(W), I'd recommend cddump. > There's not a dpkg, but it's easy enough to install. See > http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/cddump.html. Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: > Hi all > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog > to create the image. Is it possible that i culd make an exact copy of my > files, i mean, that no name is altered after? I tried it but i never got >

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread ^chewie
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I want to make backups to CD-RW. Use yacdback: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yacdbak/ It's a collection of bash scripts that use cdrecord(8) and tar(8) to make multi-volume backups of your filesystems. Read the scripts and teach yourself a little about both to