Subject: Re: backups to CD?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/11/2001 08:54:28
On 2001.04.11 02:16, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> How do you determine the CD diskspace required for each directory?  How do you
> know whether you're slightly over or slightly under total CD capacity?  Is
> there any way to know how much space is still available, such as you get when
> running DIR command in DOS?

I made a script which does a 'du -sk' on every file/directory specified
in the datafile and sum them up.

I never checked its accuracy though.

> 
> I suppose you could backup data from several different file systems, from
> different OSes?  Walnut Creek CDROM, now BSDI (or is it now Wind River?) has
> done that.

Yes. Also NFS mounted data.

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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