Thanks John can I use tar to backup to a memory stick as well. Maybe I must rather use a memory stick, what do you think? Henk On Di 22.08.2006 10:14, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:16, Henk Roos wrote:

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Hi again,

I need some kind of backup utility that backs up a file to CD - R. The file is about 5MB so I should be able to use the CD a couple of times. It will need to be a command line program because it will be called from another program (it should copy the file to cd and return the status of the command).

Thanks Henk

tar is your friend. CD-RW is better for this than CD-R.

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Hi John, I've tried using tat to backup to a USB Flash Drive but I can't seem to get it right I use the following command tar  --create -f=/dev/sda1 upload.tar upload tar: =/dev/sda1: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Should I rather just detemine the mount point and copy it to that directory. The thing is I want a program to do the backup automatically without user interface so I want to make sure the backup is successful that's why I think tar would write to the device directly. What do you think. Henk On Di 22.08.2006 10:28, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:32, Henk Roos wrote:

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Thanks John

can I use tar to backup to a memory stick as well. Maybe I must rather use a memory stick, what do you think?

Tar does not care what the target media is, so either should work. I have a disk in an external case which has both USB and Firewire interfaces. I use it for backup all the time. I can stack 3 or 4 full system backups on a 40 gig disk using Bru (which is specifically designed for backup).

There are also some Graphical programs (kdar) if you want, but you said command line.

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On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 00:28 -0800, John Andersen wrote:

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:32, Henk Roos wrote:

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Thanks John

can I use tar to backup to a memory stick as well. Maybe I must rather use a memory stick, what do you think?

Tar does not care what the target media is, so either should work. I have a disk in an external case which has both USB and Firewire interfaces. I use it for backup all the time. I can stack 3 or 4 full system backups on a 40 gig disk using Bru (which is specifically designed for backup).

There are also some Graphical programs (kdar) if you want, but you said command line. kdar will output a shell script that you can setup as a cron job and does full, or incremental backups.

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