Best way to back up to CD?

[Ramiro Aceves]

messmate wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:31:26 -0800
> Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions at taborandtashell.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I would like to start making periodic backups to CD. I know I can make
>>a tarball, and then create an iso with just that tarball on it, and
>>then burn that to a cd, but is there a better way?

I come from the Linux world, and I am only experimenting in FreeBSD 
since a while. In Linux, I am using my own script with "afio" , 
"cdrecord" (for CDs) and recently "growisofs" (for DVDs).

Everything is on the ports here so I think you will be able to setup 
them in freebsd without trouble.

If you need more info, I can send you my script (very simple, written in 
bash) so that you can use it and modify as you need.

Ramiro.






>>
>>Specifically, I have read the into to backups in the Handbook and it 
>>says that dump/restore is superior to tar, but it looks like dump was 
>>only intended for tape drives. Am I reading this right?
>>
>>Thank You.
>