[oclug]Backup to CD

[Dave]

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 15:06, KMcLauchlan wrote:
> Hullo y'all
> 
> OK, so this isn't quite working... 
> I've been backing up stuff to CD for a few years 
> with Windows, with no problem.
> 
> So now I'm trying to do it from Linux command line.
> 
> After reading what showed up in various Google searches, and then reading the man pages of 
> "mkisofs" and "cdrecord", respectively, I thought 
> I was doing the right thing with:
> 
>  mkisofs -U ./elefino | cdrecord -dao speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject
> 
> 

I've just recently set up a CD-RW myself and have been learning how to
use it.  You should read the CD-Writing HOWTO (
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html ); you might also have a
copy of it on your harddrive.

>
> Um... help?  Two questions:
> 
> 1) what am I actually doing, above (as opposed to 
>    what I thought I was doing)?
> 
> 2) what should I be doing, if all I want to do 
>   is to backup my home directories to CD before 
>   I re-arrange the hard-disk furniture?

I'm too new to this to steer you right, but you might want to use a GUI
frontend to mkisofs and cdrecord; so far, I've used gcombust 
( http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/ )  for data CDs with good
results.  It should help to make clearer for you the flags you want to
use when you use the command line again.

Dave.
-- 
dle1 at sympatico.ca
http://oclug.on.ca/boss
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