Re: HELIOS "mkisofs" the ultimate UDF disk image backup utility

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Klaus Ditze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on http://www.helios.de/news/news07/mkisofs.phtml i found some Information
> about a other Version of mkisofs:
>
> HELIOS "mkisofs"  the ultimate UDF disk image backup utility
>
> The free public domain disk image utility "mkisofs" received major
> enhancements by HELIOS Software engineers, to enable flexible disk image
> creation for archiving and backup tasks going way beyond DVD image creation.
> HELIOS added support to archive hundreds of thousands of files/folders into
> disk images without any size limitations.
>
> Helmut Tschemernjak, president and founder of HELIOS Software notes:
> "Today's growing disk capacities and inexpensive external disk systems allow
> storing read-only archives quickly on disk instead of burning media or using
> proprietary tape formats. We turned "mkisofs" into a general purpose
> solution which allows archiving Mac, Windows, and UNIX specific files with
> their attributes into UDF disk images which can easily be mounted by Mac and
> Windows users."
>
> ...
>
>
>   
I confess I don't think of any volatile magnetic media as "backup," 
certainly not the same way that optical media are used, since they are 
subject to both magnetic fields and mechanical failures, etc. Not that 
optical media are perfect, but they are a lot easier to store, and with 
Blue-Ray have adequate capacity to be practical.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979