Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW
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
> create the image.
> name is altered after?
> I tried it but i never got the output i want.
> I want to backup the /root, /home and the /etc directory into the /root /home
> and /etc dirs on the CD.
> I tried this command:
> mkisofs -R -o /tmp/backup.iso /home=/home/ /root=/root/ /etc=/etc/
>
> but i had errors about dubble files or it merged the files wrong
>
> Have somebody a clue
> Or should i make a tar image first and then a iso image of it and burn this
> to the CD?
>
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