On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:04:19AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > What's wrong with incremental tar/dump burned onto a CD/DVD? You didn't read on, did you. I did multi-volume tar backups with the CDROM as a block device. Trying to create the table of contents by sequentially scanning each CD is a very large PITA. If you have plenty of time on your hands and don't mind rescanning in the case of random scanning problems, go for it. Use CDROM's, but make sure your backup plan EXCLUDES multi-volume tar archive backups with the CDROM as a block device. Instead, use tarball FILES no larger than ONE CD worth of data, compressed or not. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020529/dc72c1da/attachment.pgp