> I would like to make compressed backups. Correct me if I am wrong, but I > believe growisofs does not provide that facility via an option. > > I believe I would need to make a compressed backup of the directory and > then copy this to DVD with growisofs?
What's a "compressed backup"? If you mean like 'tar zcf', then you can just pipe its output to growisofs, e.g. 'tar zcf - /some/files | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0', without wasting any volatile storage. If you refer to "transparent decompression" in Linux isofs, then it's mkisofs department and you should know that growisofs passes *all* options it fails to interpret internally down to mkisofs [therefore no explicit support for any particular mkisofs option is required in growisofs]. In other words, whatever options you can imagine passing to mkisofs can as well be passed to growisofs. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
