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Jason Helfman wrote:
>
> I am just using xcdroast and mastering an image from the filesystem. Is
> this not recommended?
>
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:12:58AM +0000, Jim Harvey thus spat:
> | Jason Helfman wrote:
> | >
> | > I have noticed that writing to cdrw is no problem, however doing a
> | > system restore / copy from cdrom to your filesystem is quiet cumbersome.
> | > I have found that doing the restore brings it into the fs as a read-only
> | > archive. Everytime I restore anything I need to cat the file to a new
> | > file, then remove the old file and rename the newly restored file.
> | >
> | > This is cumbersome and could be done with a simple bash procedure
> | > sourcing, however I would like to not work with this option.
> | >
> | > Am I doing something wrong ?
> | >
> |
> | How are you putting the files on CD? If you build a tarball and put that on the CD, the permissions should restore intact when you
> | untar the file.
> | --
That will always restore the files without write permission - Probably why there are so few backup programs that support CDR even in windows.
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Jim Harvey, Naperville, Ill. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS/9
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