Re: [SLUG] Incremental Backups To CDs

From: Ronald KA4INM Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 22:35:25 EST


Paul M Foster wrote:

   Does she use a CD-RW or a CD-R? If she is using a CD-RW and is using
the UFD (I think) file system,, where the CD-RW must be formatted, we
(LINUX programmers) seem to feel it isn't ready for prime time.
   If she is using a CD-R, I always close my disks and I don't know how
things turn out if you don't.
   I use a combination of one 100 meg ZIP disk and rotating CD-RW's
(A and B) and good old $0.1611 each (including tax) unlabeled 650
meg CD-R's to back up my confusor files.

> In my wife's (Windows) CD burning software, she typically backs up a set
> of directories to a CD. Later, she'll select only those files which have
> changed within that hierarchy, and back those up to that same CD newly.
> When looking at the CD, you see all the files except the old versions of
> the files she backed up more recently. For those files, you see only the
> new versions.

> I've set up a CD burning machine at home running mkisofs and cdrecord
> under Linux. Can we achieve the same result under this software as she
> does with her Windows software?

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