[ale] Full filesystem backup to CD-R (fwd)

[tslane at attbi.com]

I would think you could use mknod to create a pipe 
w/backgrounded split (& possibly gzip) for mkisofs then 
just burn & remove each split subfile.

would that not work?
Geoffery,

Doesn't this constrain you to only backing up filesystems that are < one
cd-r's capacity?  I'm looking for something that will recognize that it
won't all fit on one cd and split up automatically.  I think with your
approach, I'd have to verify each time to make sure I wasn't overfilling
the iso.  Of course, I could be wrong.

Thanks for your help.

John

Geoffrey said:
> 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. :)
>
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> John
>>
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