Lo, on Tuesday, February 20, Rich Renomeron did write: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't > > seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it > > backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home. > > There is nothing in the man page to suggest how it can be done. > > You can only back up one directory (or directory tree) at a time. > Furthermore, everything you back up must be on the same filesystem.
True, although if they're small enough, you can back multiple filesystems up to the same disk. > And a word of warning: My last 0-level backup did not contain any > symbolic links (e.g. /etc/alternatives and /etc/init.d), so when I tried > to do a full restore, I had some problems. My impression from poking > around the code a bit symlinks are not supported. Check out the c switch, which creates a cpio archive of special files, including symbolic links. I'm a little unclear as to why this is necessary, I must admit. Based on some quick little tests I just performed, mkisofs is capable of generating ISO/RockRidge images which contain symbolic links, hard links, block devices, character devices, FIFOs, and Unix sockets. (Far as I can tell, that's everything.) Perhaps cddump doesn't do this because it generates Joliet images by default? Ah well. At least it works. Richard
