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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:48:46 +0100
From:      messmate <messmate@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Best way to back up to CD?
Message-ID:  <20050103234846.45cc5ca2@eric.placeverte.home>
In-Reply-To: <41D9B9AE.6090700@taborandtashell.net>
References:  <41D9B9AE.6090700@taborandtashell.net>

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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800
Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make
>a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and
>then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way?
>
>Specifically, I have read the into to backups in the Handbook and it 
>says that dump/restore is superior to tar, but it looks like dump was 
>only intended for tape drives. Am I reading this right?
>
>Thank You.
>
Look for MONDO/MINDI.
http://www.mondorescue.org/support/support.html
mess-mate



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