Mondo looks interesting but the cd drive is on my boss's  windows laptop
not on the linux machines and reading the manual it looks like the
linux machine must have a cdrw drive
> 1. Use Mondo. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
> This is by far the best and most flexible backup I've used. It is also good 
> for disaster recovery.
> 
> 2. If that won't suit your needs, perhaps try tar. Then once everything you 
> want is tarred up, then do a mkisofs on the tar file(s). All of it can be 
> scripted.
Reading about tar it looked like you have to enter every sub directory
individually 

> 
> 3. I thought (it's been a while) that pax could do . files. But you have to 
> use patterns. YMMV.
> 
I've been messing with patterns so far my attempts have led to pax trying
to do everything when I try for . files. I'll keep searching and
 
expermenting as this looks the most hopeful
                 Thanks
                 Linda

> Hope it helps.
> 
> 



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