> Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify > the burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares > two files or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical > equivalents)
I usu make a tar file of what i want backed up, then burn that. Only works if you have the space. Once burned, i do an md5sum on the tar file and the cd to make sure they match. > Xcdroast, gcombust to name some. In my opinion, none of them is > really easy to use compared to the Windows counterparts. I > normally boot in windows to burn CDs :-[ CLI seems to be the best, here. Make a backup script once, and it's as easy as ./backup at the cli. Here is what i burn with : # root because i backup /etc if test `whoami` != "root"; then echo `whoami`", you have to be root" exit fi BACK_PATH="/stuff/backup" FILENAME="cudaback" FULLPATH=$BACK_PATH/$FILENAME tar -cf $FULLPATH.tar /home/huff /etc 1> $FULLPATH.txt 2>&1 # since i pipe the iso making directly to cdrecord, to be extra # safe, i usu don't use the comp while burning. see man cdrecord nice --18 mkisofs -r $FULLPATH.tar | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data - chown huff $FULLPATH.tar chgrp huff $FULLPATH.tar FILE_MD5SUM=`md5sum $FULLPATH.tar` CD_MD5SUM=`md5sum /mnt/cdrom/$FILENAME.tar` eject /mnt/cdrom echo "FILE: $FILE_MD5SUM" echo "CD: $CD_MD5SUM"
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