Nightly backup using CD-ROM

[Lowell Gilbert]

Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM
> with sessions.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html
> 
> My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without
> having to run fixate?  It obviously doesn't mount like a regular CD until
> then.

You should be able to fixate the disk and still add more sessions
later, shouldn't you?  It will waste a little space, but not horrible
amounts...