CR-Recorder use for system backups
i am thinking of getting a CR-Recorder to do backups Can this be run from the Konsole Command Line to tar & gzip directories to be written to CD, &, if I back up the whole system, will i be told when to put in a new CD ? never having used a CD recorder, I would appreciate any hints & help thanks best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Monday 24 June 2002 14:02, tabanna wrote:
i am thinking of getting a CR-Recorder to do backups
Can this be run from the Konsole Command Line to tar & gzip directories to be written to CD, &, if I back up the whole system, will i be told when to put in a new CD ?
never having used a CD recorder, I would appreciate any hints & help
You might want to check out MONDO at: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ " What is MONDO? Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW or NFS partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in regular use by Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA's JPL, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users. Mondo is comprehensive. Mondo supports LVM, RAID and almost any filesystem you can name. It supports adjustments in disk geometry, including migration from non-RAID to RAID. Mondo runs on all major Linux distributions and is getting better all the time. You may even backup non-Linux partitions. Mondo is free. It has been published under the GPL (GNU Public License), partly to expose it to thousands of potential beta-testers but mostly as a contribution to the Linux community. I fund its development by charging for technical support."
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:13:39 -0700
Doug Byfield
On Monday 24 June 2002 14:02, tabanna wrote:
i am thinking of getting a CR-Recorder to do backups
Can this be run from the Konsole Command Line to tar & gzip directories to be written to CD, &, if I back up the whole system, will i be told when to put in a new CD ?
never having used a CD recorder, I would appreciate any hints & help
You might want to check out MONDO at:
I use a perl script called "cddump"; it was written to do dump style backups to cd's. It spans multiple cds, prompts to insert new cd, and dosn't encrypt so you can pull out individual files. It dosn't have a "one step restore", you need to boot somehow, mount the cdrom, and start copying things back in. It is super easy to use however. To make a full backup of your system, including windows if /c is mounted: cddump 0 / then just watch it go. To make a bootable cd, with your kernel, modules, and system config, try Mkcdrec. It also does backups, but I found cddump easier. -- Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. -- General Zappa
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll try cddump and Mkcdrec and see how they compare to Mondo. There is also a nice program that does image backups called PartImage at: www.partimage.org .
I use a perl script called "cddump"; it was written to do dump style backups to cd's. It spans multiple cds, prompts to insert new cd, and dosn't encrypt so you can pull out individual files.
It dosn't have a "one step restore", you need to boot somehow, mount the cdrom, and start copying things back in.
It is super easy to use however. To make a full backup of your system, including windows if /c is mounted:
cddump 0 /
then just watch it go.
To make a bootable cd, with your kernel, modules, and system config, try Mkcdrec. It also does backups, but I found cddump easier.
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