Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: > Hi all > > I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog > to create the image. Is it possible that i culd make an exact copy of my > files, i mean, that no name is altered after? I tried it but i never got > the output i want. I want to backup the /root, /home and the /etc > directory into the /root /home and /etc dirs on the CD. I tried this > command:
> mkisofs -R -o /tmp/backup.iso /home=/home/ /root=/root/ /etc=/etc/ > but i had errors about dubble files or it merged the files wrong Far as I know, this should have worked. Which errors specifically? Did you mount the resulting image via /dev/loop* and look at the files? > Or should i make a tar image first and then a iso image of it and burn this > to the CD? Unnecessary. If you're interested in doing backups to CD-R(W), I'd recommend cddump. There's not a dpkg, but it's easy enough to install. See http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/cddump.html. Richard
