Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM with sessions. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM : with sessions. : :

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : You should be able to fixate the disk and still add more sessions : later, shouldn't you? It will waste a little space, but not horrible : amounts... I can give this a shot. I

Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM with sessions. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without having to run fixate? It obviously

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-22 Thread ANISH MISTRY
- Original Message - From: Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:26 am Subject: Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i? * Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 21:10]: wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2004 11:45 am, you wrote: * Anish Mistry

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-11 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 11 November 2004 11:45 am, you wrote: * Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20041110 03:21]: wrote: [snip] Hey Anish, Thank you so much for your script. I am not quite a newbie on Unix, but your script has gotten me lost, such that I feel like a newbie ;) Could you kindly

Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi, I am sure I don't have to reinvent this wheel. I have a several FreeBSD 5.2.1 servers. They are all built the same. The disk is partitioned only into / and swap. It is so easy for me to backup an entire box by doing: cd / tar czf - / | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat Box1-backup.tgz' Now

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah... tar czf - / | burncd -e -smax data -

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

2004-11-09 Thread Anish Mistry
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:49 pm, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - /