Re: backup to CD

[Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com>]

Check out Mondo.  There is also a script that was written and put out
on the list a few months back that tarred/gzipped to a directory and then
burned the tars onto CD you you wished.

Lance


> > I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and
> > some (not all) of my  /home directories.
> > 
> > Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (multiple sessions ?
> > multiple files ?) until it's filled up ?
> > 
> 
> Yesterday, I start looking for scripts doing just that, but I ended up cutting and pasting snipets from the tar info files and the cd-writing howto instead. My intention is to have cron jobs doing incremental dumps every week. On full dumps I haven't really decided yet. If you want I can send you the scripts when they are ready (yesterday I only had time to do/test the full dump).
> 
> /Hans Ekbrand
> 
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