On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to > > use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > > span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will > > require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it > > but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I > > can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. > > > > Is there anything out there that would do this? > > I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it > and seems that mondorescue can do that: > > http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml > > However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the > versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in > package.mask says > > "has security issues and will be removed from portage > due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497" > > but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in > portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many > gentoo-related downloads. > > Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more > detailed information.
I've heard good things about the package, installed it yesterday, and will soon give it a test. In my case, I'm interested in creating a bootable CD so that I can have a functioning system able to restore my system from an external hard drive :-> -- [email protected] mailing list
