I do a backup of certain files on to 2 cdrws. Each cdrw has a tar.bz2 archive on it. Whenever I freshen my backups (usually once a week), I simply copy the archives to the hd, uncompress them, do whatever needs to be done, recompress them, and create a cd image with the modified archives, that I burn to the cdrws. Hth. Greg On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:00:33AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > First, thanks for the office-max tip, although the rebate was only for about a > week and is over; but there may be more down the road. > To anybody trying to register at office max, I wasn't able to do this after my > cart was full from the loggin/register link there; I just kep getting dumped > back to the register/login screen. But starting from the home directory without > shopping first, I was able to register. So if you try it and have problems, be > persistent; it can be done. > Last night, following the directions in the cdwriting howto and using mkisofs > and cdrecord, I did my first data cd. For practice, I just did my /home/chomiak > directory without any compression or anything, and it worked. > If any of you do your entire backup system by cd, I would like to know what you > use, how much compressing you do first, etc. Of course, I am also looking at the > backup howto, but would appreciate any tips from personal experience. > The only thing is that since you can't rewrite just part of a cdrom, it would > seem to me that you would do one more-or-less permanent backup that you might > redo from time to time, and then do periodic backups of the things that change > frequently. > I would really like to avoid having to do a from-scratch re-install in the > future, losing data and present setup. But I also want to be able to recover > specific files in case of a partial or minor disaster. > tIA. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
