netbsd-users: Re: using pax (or something else?) to backup lots of data to CD or

Subject: Re: using pax (or something else?) to backup lots of data to CD or
To: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Catri=E1n?= C. <ccatrian@eml.cc>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/28/2004 00:55:00

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:51:23 +1100
Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions here for how to backup
> to CD or DVD in a reasonably neat and automatic/hands free
> way a whole filesystem or chunk thereof?

I use dar for my backups.

"DAR can break up a archive into multiple files, to facilitate
storage on portable media, like CDs or DVDs."

You can check http://dar.sourceforge.net/ to see if it is useful to you.

Regards

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