On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:55:15AM -0600, John Reese wrote: > I too need to back up some pretty hefty systems (~ 8 GB), so not only > will I need to write to DVD instead of iso9660 (<= 700 MB), but I'll > also need to span DVDs. I looked up some manuals on dd and mkisofs, and > it is not clear to me that either of them can do this. Anyone else out > there encounter this problem? Better yet, has anyone resolved it? I don't think that there's a way around this problem directly with dd, but there's quite a bit of backup software that can deal with the problem. My personal favorite is backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/), though it may be overkill for your needs. Backuppc is designed primarily to store backups to hard disks, but it has the ability to archive those backups to tape, CD, and DVD and it can span multiple disks. A simpler method might just be to use k3b. You can manually pick sections of you disks that will fit on one DVD. Or use it with dar or kdar. Another tool that should work is mondo. I have heard good things about Amanda which is designed to make backups to tape, but can has a module which allows the use of CD/DVD. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons | _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list