On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:57:39AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > You didn't read my first message. I said "less than 4 GB/day" - meaning > less than a DVD-R a day. Of course, this is once again getting away from my point, the focus of my comment. Don't use CDR or DVD's AS A BLOCK DEVICE for tar images, especially as multi-volume tar's. Here's the difference for all practical purposes: tar --tape-length=$((650*1024)) -cvf tar.bin directory/ cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=2 tar.bin This is OK, as long as you only use one CD and you don't mind waiting while the CDROM scans every sector sequentially to build the table of contents: tar -tvf /dev/cdrom However, if you want a more sane approach: mkdir /tmp/backup tar -czvf /tmp/backup/directory.tar.gz directory/ tar -czvf /tmp/backup/directory.tar.gz directory2/ mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.img /tmp/backup cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=2 /tmp/backup.img -- 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/20020531/edaf83f9/attachment.pgp