[wellylug] looking for a lazy cd-backup solution

Chris Harris chris.harris at actrix.gen.nz
Tue Sep 2 17:27:42 NZST 2003


> Could anyone suggest a "lazy" way to make backups of a "live" server onto
CD'Rs.

tar is your friend

> Is there any easy way to take "snapshots" of the live system, sptil into
640mb
> pieces and make iso-s for later burning, preserving permissions and file

gzip is also your friend

> attributes, and readable as normal CD (ie NOT in some propriatry harddrive
image
> -file, like NERO's)

Is Nero available on Linux?

C




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