Backup to dvd

From: David Berg (dberg_at_cpinternet.com)
Date: 10/24/04

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    Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to
    dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and
    /usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to build the
    tarball or iso on the hard disk before I burn it. Using a command such
    as

    mkisofs -R -o backup.iso /home /var

    looses some directory structure
    and if I use graft points I loose directory ownership & permission
    information. At least I haven't yet figured out how not to. I also
    can't figure out how to make mkisofs read from stdin for its directories
    so that I can have tar pipe its output directly to mkisofs.

    I'd rather use just mkisofs and have each individual file than one tarball
    but I don't want to run into any problems with restoring from backup
    either since I plan on doing it shortly (only using half of harddrive
    and fdisk for some reason won't let me put a partition on the rest)

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    Dave 

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