backups on cd

[Gregory Nowak]

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.
> 
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