Check out Mondo. There is also a script that was written and put out on the list a few months back that tarred/gzipped to a directory and then burned the tars onto CD you you wished.
Lance > > I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and > > some (not all) of my /home directories. > > > > Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (multiple sessions ? > > multiple files ?) until it's filled up ? > > > > Yesterday, I start looking for scripts doing just that, but I ended up > cutting and pasting snipets from the tar info files and the cd-writing howto > instead. My intention is to have cron jobs doing incremental dumps every > week. On full dumps I haven't really decided yet. If you want I can send you > the scripts when they are ready (yesterday I only had time to do/test the > full dump). > > /Hans Ekbrand > >