[NTLUG:Discuss] Using 2 CD-ROM's with X-CD-Roast

J. Reeves Hall reeves at earthling.net
Mon Aug 16 12:43:56 CDT 1999


> By using "tar -czlf /laptop/cd/next/FS.tgz FS", I can backup my entire
> system (except for /home) on a single CD.  I'm truely amazed at how well
> it works!

I just tarred my home directory (all that really matters) onto a CD-RW.

> I've only done data CDs so far, but given how easy they were, how hard
> can audio ones be?  (he asks naively :-)

Not very, you just have to rip the tracks as separate files. It might be
possible to make a snapshot of the whole disk, but that's beyond me right
now.

-Reeves





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