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Jason Helfman wrote:
>
> 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.
Yes, keeping it simple and traditional UNIX. Of course you need room for the tarball - then room for the ISO image before the
burn. I think the newest version of XCDRoast will burn directly from the hard drive, bypassing the image file creation step. One
advantage is that you can compress the tar file on the fly by throwing in a 'z' option in the tar command.
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Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Ill. - I-Opener Linux
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