David Relson wrote: > 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 :-> > Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice.
I'll check into that though. I have heard of it too. It just didn't show up in my search. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
