[SLUG] Backing up to dvd

[Leslie Katz <lesliek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luke Kilborn wrote:
> Mondo resuce is very good for a disaster recovery backup, and i would 
> suggest you use  it for that situation.
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> For a day to day backup, try using tar or cpio.
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> Cheers
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> Luke
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Luke, and apologies for the 
delay in acknowledging the reply.

It seems as though people are unanimous that Mondo is very good for 
disaster recovery, so I decided to try to get it going as at least a 
first step. I did make what it afterwards said was a successful backup, 
but I realised as it was happening that I'd used the options unwisely. 
I'd intended to create a single .iso which I'd afterwards burn to a dvd, 
but, in the result, I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried 
to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen 
suggested somewhere, but couldn't boot with a dvd burnt from it. 
Tomorrow, I'll start again, but try to make sure I produce only one .iso.

Thanks again,

Leslie