Building ISO Filesystems
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Amanda Links (Courtesy Daniel Allen) http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/191.html (Amanda for tapeless operation) http://openapps.harkness.co.uk/Documentation/network_setup/backup.html (Setting up Amanda in five days) Other backup software: kdat (KDE) cdbackup Arkeia (commercial) cdbkup / cdsplit http://cdbkup.sourceforge.net/ Using cdrecord to back up your hard drive (courtesy Robert Day) as a quick solution for those who just want to back up on CD from their local system, here's what i use. i use mkisofs and cdrecord to save the really vital stuff. assuming y'all can handle cdrecord, my mkisofs command: # mkisofs -l -J -R -T -v -o backup.iso \ -graft-points d1/=d1 d2/=d2 ... etc ... the "graft points" is what most people don't understand. by default, if you use mkisofs to add directories to an ISO image, the top level directory name is always stripped, so everything gets dumped into the same directory, which is kinda messy. "-graft-points" and d1/=d1 means to add directory d1, and *leave* *it* as directory d1 in the ISO image.