Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:32:45 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: >> Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one >> partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs "as plain as >> possible" -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can >> mount DVD #n and can easily read and copy the contents? > > Search the list archives, this came up very recently. i think the program > recommended was scdbackup. > > Note that backing up to DVD/CD file by file will destroy file > permissions. I prefer to use squashfs to create a compressed copy of the > filesystem and copy that to DVD. then I can mount it and copy files back > without losing permissions.
sync2cd It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH. And it does store the permission and ownership information along with the files. HTH. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
