Topic: Back-ups to CD-R/CD_RW

[Technocod]

I have SME 5.5, with a few mods (Jukebox, Gallery, phpBB, a few admin mods)~ and would like to use an old 2x2x6 CD-R/W as a backup device, for my general config, and my I-Bay(s). The total data is only about 1.5Gb and doesn't change much, if at all.

I would like to backup the whole lot onto CD-R(W), so that in the event of a failure, I could re-install 5.5, the restore from back-up.


Is this possible?

[Dean]

Yeah, its possible see the following link:

http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/

This compresses i-bays/config into a tgz file and copies to a cdr or blank
cdrw.  You can schedule backups etc.  Before you install make sure you have
the following installed: mkisofs and cdrecord.

If need be the file can be read using pkzip to extract individual files as well
 

Dean

[Jeremy McNicoll]

I compiled an RPM for this, its exactly the same.  It is located here
http://www.mcnicoll.ca/e-smith/cdBackup/

This RPM assumes that you can SUCCESSFULLY create a cdr.  I have info located there.

When I get around to it (and learn how) I will post it to the sourceforge site.