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Title: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Mary cheung on October 28, 2002, 06:27:24 PM

hi! i am a newbile for using e-smith...
can i using cd-r for backup..and how-to Doc??
thx a lot!

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on October 29, 2002, 04:23:04 AM

Yeah I would also be very interested in this form of backup too :-)

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Aaron on October 29, 2002, 06:51:27 AM

Visit the Wish List area and look for message titled "Scheduled Desktop Backup To CD" or http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19962.msg78486#msg78486.

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Mary cheung on October 29, 2002, 01:29:57 PM

thx!!!!!!!! really thx!!!Aaron wrote:

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: yipfung on October 30, 2002, 01:37:20 AM

I used mkcdrec http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html
It can makes a bootable disaster recovery image ISO file, multi-volume CD-R or CD-RW. and restore to blank hard disk.

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on October 30, 2002, 02:05:45 AM

Quoted from http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/documentation.html

"
this tool does not replace the process of making back-ups. It only makes a snapshot of the time it was run, althought not bad to have ;-) Some have nothing or even less ;-/
"

Isnt that bad? This means that mkcdrec doesnt actually back anything up, just take snapshots of the partition :-(. Am I wrong?

What would be nice is a program like this, but makes bootable CD's of the actuall system, so that basically I could take those CD's, bung them into a brand new computer with no partitions (clean) and run it and have them put the system back on and have it running as it was.

Is there anything out there like this, except for norton ghost that is, anything especially made for *nix environments?

Thanks

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Andrei on October 31, 2002, 12:58:46 AM

I just bought a Fully functional 25/50Gig Onstream tape drive on Ebay for $85.00. And there are lot's of them onsale there. I was also looking for a CDrom backup solution but 640MB or 50Gigs compressed data storage. It was a no brainer.

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Mary cheung on October 31, 2002, 11:57:26 AM

is any different using of Onstream tape drive and HP tape drive..
HP tape is too.....$$$$$$!!
thx

Title: Re: use cd-r for backup
Post by: Andrei on November 01, 2002, 01:47:33 PM

Onstream has it's own media for storage and the company is solid and has been around for a while. I even ordered the media pretty cheap off of Ebay 3 25/50 Gig tapes for $100.00 brand new. They usually cost around $50 each if you buy retail.