From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 03:42:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3888B106566B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:42:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB928FC16 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:42:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n0O3gsbH042237; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090124034209.GA31215@thought.org> References: <20090123011043.GA86638@thought.org> <497954FE.8050206@gmail.com> <20090123074516.GC96433@thought.org> <20090123091407.0485db35.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090123091407.0485db35.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Tim Judd , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:42:32 -0000 On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > > > You can always try to tar it up directly > > > > > > tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ > > > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > I do tar ~kline --bzip'd-- and scp it around. 3 times/week. I > > want my most important stuff, ~/[DOT] files too, on a DVD. > > Y'never know when a meteor will destroy the Earth... . > > Using tar onto acd may not work, but utilizing atapicam, it could > eventually work with cd directly: > > % tar cvjf /dev/cd0 ~/.* ~/devel ~/music ~/texts > > But this does not (!) make the media mountable! You may see that > as a disadvantage, but maybe it's not: You can access it now > directly without needing to mount it, and you can extract from > it by selection, e. g. > > % tar xvjf /dev/cd0 ~/music > > to only extract the music/ subtree. > > The tar "file system" is best for interoperability because (if > I may say this) every UNIX-like OS can read tar, no matter if you > put it n discs, disks, tapes or even hard disks or USB sticks. > > Hm. Thanks for the idea. I never considered putting a tarball directly onto a DVD, but it makes sense. On my ancient Kayak my 4mm tape drive still works, and I have that cron'd too. (Trouble with the tape drive is that its tapes won't be readable except on this drive... But the DVD stores will.) gary > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php