[Sheflug] Re: Backup advice

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex

Or anyone else.

Looking back into the archives for the 1st of April 2002 I find my own
question about backing up to a CD recorder.  Alex was very helpful
and suggested that I use the following to backup my own data....


rsync -a /home/mydocuments/ /home/mybackup/ > /dev/null 2>&1
mkdir -p /tmp/backup
export FILE=backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz
tar -cz /home/mybackup > /tmp/backup/$FILE
mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/backup.iso /tmp/backup
# cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 blank=fast
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -data /tmp/backup.iso
rm -rf /tmp/backup /tmp/backup.iso



This has subsequently proven to be very reliable.  I would now like to
get hold of a DVD recorder to backup the increasing amount of data on
my hard drive.  Would the above script be usable with DVD and if so
is there a DVD recorder software package that comes with the Debian or
SuSE CDs that can be configured to do the above ?

Thanks



Richard
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