[ale] Full filesystem backup to CD-R

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good, relatively easy utility that allows the
> backing up of filesystems or subsets to CD-R?  I'm looking for something
> that won't take days to understand fully or hack to get working.  I was
> taking a look at Mondo, but having some issues.
> 
> Anything out there you've used successfully?

mkisofs -T -l -r -o foo.iso /path-to-the-fs-to-backup
cdrecord speed=$YOURSPEED dev=$YOURDEV foo.iso

Throw that into a shell script and you've got your utility...

Doesn't take long to learn and works. :)


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> Thanks!
> John
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