Re: backup to CD

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya hans...

i've searched/collected backup scripts...
( backups to disks, tape, cds, rsync, etc

	http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html

have fun
alvin

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:02:31AM +0200, R. Alexander wrote:
> > My Debian box has an internal scsi CD burner.
> > 
> > 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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