David Fitch wrote:
 >

> Second thing is never run anything at all
> as root unless you're really sure you know what 

>   (a) you're doing, and

>   (b) what the command will do.
> 


and (c) You really have to!

// Note: (c) should not just be for 'newbies'


> (and then there's keeping backups/multiple copies of important
> data etc etc)
> 


and since we all do this regularly <cough>, does anyone
know of a way of backing up large amounts of data (>700MB)
across multiple CD-Rs?
The equivalent of:
   # tar /home cvMf /dev/fd0

would be real handy (floppies just don't cut it anymore :)


--
Thanks,
Jim.



> Dave.
> 



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