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So I take it that it is just better to create tarballs of your backups
and then make images of those.
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:42:11PM -0500, Jim Harvey thus spat:
| 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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