Mike McCarty wrote:
man man
man dump
man restore
works great with DVD-RAM cartridges.
Backup is still something of a mystery to me.
Hmm. I know how to use man. The documentation for dump does
not tell me what files *nix needs saved. I suppose one could
dump to a file, and use split to break it into CD size pieces, and
XCDROAST
them. What is a DVD-RAM cartridge?
I suppose that Fedora has some special areas that need attendance, as
well,
over and above what a generic *nix installation needs.
Mike
I'd avoid to use dump/restore.. Use tar + gzip or tar + bz2. You'll get
good compression rates and all permissions will be kept.
If you use dump , you're copying *everything* from the disk, including
the data structures used to store the data and permissions on disk,
which is a waste of space.
And I think he meant DVD-RAM disc? Because my DVD burner works with
DVD-RAM and it is a disc like any DVD, except that it's golden and works
pretty much like a big UDF filesystem (like those packet writing apps
that windows used on CD-RW)
--
Pedro Macedo
