Hi, I am sure I don't have to reinvent this wheel. I have a several FreeBSD 5.2.1 servers. They are all built the same. The disk is partitioned only into / and swap.
It is so easy for me to backup an entire box by doing: cd / tar czf - / | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat Box1-backup.tgz' Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that: tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah... So every night I just mount a blank CD and let a cron job do the backup;) I know there could be gotchas, like when the CD is not empty, etc. Is anyone already doing this? Are you willing to share the methodology? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"