Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:14:07 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem? Message-ID: <20090123091407.0485db35.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090123074516.GC96433@thought.org> References: <20090123011043.GA86638@thought.org> <497954FE.8050206@gmail.com> <20090123074516.GC96433@thought.org>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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