on Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Dan Anderson (dan@mathjunkies.com) wrote:
> I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could
> run dd but the man page was unintelligible.
How do you plan to dd 40 GiB of disk to 650 MiB of CD?
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Tape and tar.
There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
Peace.
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