Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 05:15:23 +0400, Guy Van Sanden wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to automate backups to CD-R/CD-RW.  But I can't find
a backup utility that supports that kind of thing.

This is doable with shell scripts, but I wouldn't want to do it in a
multi-user runlevel (man init).  You'd also want to have a fast CD-R with a
big buffer (like my Mitsumi 4801TE 4x with its 2mb FIFO).  You'd want to use
a tar script to get the data and compress it, and then burn it from there.
>Fromthe CD-R HOWTO:

"In times where everybody except me owns a 400 Mhz machine, people feed the
output of mkisofs directly into cdrecord:

# IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -R -q -print-size private_collection/`
# misofs -r private_collection/ | cdrecord speed=2 dev-0,6,0 \
  tsize=${IMG_SIZE}s -data -

--end frivilous waste of bandwidth quote--

Which wouldn't be that hard to append to a tar script.  Read the CD-R HOWTO
over at http://www.linuxdoc.org.  Brush up on tar ('cause mine sucks), and
let me know what you come up with :).

> My linux box is file-server for a windows client which has to be backed up
to.

Again, single-user mode doesn't allow smbmount.  I don't know.


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