Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-27 Thread Rob Wellesley
Kevin Flanagan wrote: > > [...] > > Has anyone thought of implementing this kind of thing for SME? I think > > that with the knowledge of the base system it'd be fairly easy to create > > a "Emergency restore CD" of the configured system, data being another > > set of CDs. > > Gordon wrote I thi

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Gordon Rowell wrote: > > That also has the advantage of being random access, if you want one > > file, just mount the disc, and get it. > > Sure. I'm actually very interested in DVD-RW backup, since you can > probably get over ~10GByte compressed. I'm still waiting for S

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 12:47:25AM +1200, winux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > can't find this on your ftp contrib site. Could you please point me to it? There now - I sent my mail just _after_ our regular update of the ftp site. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell[EMAIL PROT

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:30:33AM -0400, Kevin Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I don't have a floppy drive in the system, or a tape drive. It's a > Compaq Ipaq Desktop. If I could create an ISO that had everything that > the reinstall floppy has, and the data that a tape backup

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread winux
- Original Message - From: "Gordon Rowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyway, have a look at e-smith-cdbackup in my contrib area. It might > be of interest. It doesn't do multi-CD backups, but if your changed data > during a day will fit on a CD (it probably will), it can be useful. > can'

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Kevin Flanagan
Quoting Gordon Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gordon, > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:55:17AM -0400, Kevin Flanagan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > Has anyone thought of implementing this kind of thing for SME? I > think > > that with the knowledge of the base system it'd be fairly easy to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:55:17AM -0400, Kevin Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Has anyone thought of implementing this kind of thing for SME? I think > that with the knowledge of the base system it'd be fairly easy to create > a "Emergency restore CD" of the configured system, data

[e-smith-devinfo] Backup to ISO?

2002-04-26 Thread Kevin Flanagan
This month's issue of Sys Admin has a good article on backing up your system to .ISO images which you can burn to CD. Has anyone thought of implementing this kind of thing for SME? I think that with the knowledge of the base system it'd be fairly easy to create a "Emergency restore CD" of the