In article <bfu7eo$68l$1@pc.tampabay.rr.com>,
Hactar <ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge> wrote:

>Less safe is a backup medium -- tape, CD, DVD, etc., which you use regularly.

So, what are people using for backup to CD? The problems that stop me
every time I try to backup a system to CD are, the total amount to
backup is far more than a single CD capacity, there are files larger
than a CD can hold, and the ISO-9660 filesystem is too limited for
direct backup of a linux filesystem.

A program like Mondo would seem to be ideal, if it worked, but it has
way too many issues to be considered for a backup solution.

It would be simple enough to make a tar command that did multi-volume
backups, pausing to mkisofs and cdrecord, but restoring from this might
be a difficult exercise, and it seems awfully prone to failure.

I'd like to be able to archive a multi-volume cpio, tar, and/or dd, and
have some reasonable assurance of success. As I've said, Mondo looks
like it would be perfect, if only it were reliable. Have I missed
something else that fills the same niche, but works? (Apologies to
Hugo, et. al., but Mondo just doesn't really work well enough yet.)

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