On Mon, March 6, 2006 2:23 pm, Ross Drummond wrote:
> As part of any talk I would be happy to do a short show & tell about my
> bash
> backup script.
>
> It uses bash to wrap MySql dump, tar mkisofs & cdrecord to write a backup
> cd.
>
> As an incidental question does anyone know of some code I can use to test
> if
> there is a blank cd in the proper drive?
>
> Cheers Ross Drummmond
>
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:41, John Carter wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>> > Now, about your backup strategy.. (:
>>
>> "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and
>>   have everyone else mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
>
Dunno, but dmesg reports

  "cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!"

when I stuff one in.

Steve
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