From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 12:35:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5495916A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:35:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from xenial.mcc.ac.uk (xenial.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF0043D46 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:35:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by xenial.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1E50fb-000HV8-7f for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:35:55 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7GCZsOZ023767 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:35:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.13.1/8.12.6/Submit) id j7GCZrWg023766 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:35:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:35:53 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050816123553.GA23728@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Nightly backup using CD-ROM 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: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:35:57 -0000 Hi all, I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM with sessions. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without having to run fixate? It obviously doesn't mount like a regular CD until then. jm --