On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:58, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > I was wondering which parameters I should pass to growisofs in order to get a > systembackup. > My entire system doesn't fit on a single DVD anyway, so I need to do it in > multiple passes. I was trying (as a test) to backup the /home directory and > used this parameters: > growisofs -Z /dev/cdrecorder -R -J /home > > But the result was that on the disk there was no home directory, instead the > usersdirectories were listed directly in the root of the DVD. > > i.E.: /mnt/cdrecorder/username > instead of /mnt/cdrecorder/home/username > > Another issue is about the special direcotories. I don' t need a /tmp backup > (I guess) but there should be an empty /proc and /dev/ to serve as the > respective mountpoints. When I would specify /proc then I would get all > entries on the DVD, right? Which is certainly not what I intend. And when I > specify /dev what will be stored on the disk? The devicenodes or will it try > to store the content (which would obviusly be nonsense).
I use partimage (in portage) to create a single file for each partition, then $ growisofs -R -J -Z root.000 /dev/sr1 partimage can also split the image at a certain size, for multiple dvd's and there is a copy of it on knoppix for the restore. -- Tom Wesley
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