Nightly backup using CD-ROM - how do i?

From: Odhiambo Washington (wash_at_wananchi.com)
Date: 11/09/04

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    Hi,

    I am sure I don't have to reinvent this wheel. I have a several FreeBSD
    5.2.1 servers. They are all built the same. The disk is partitioned only
    into / and swap.

    It is so easy for me to backup an entire box by doing:

    cd /
    tar czf - / | ssh wash@backup.server 'cat Box1-backup.tgz'

    Now instead of the above, I would like to pipe the output
    to be written to a CD-ROM mounted on the same box. I am
    hoping burncd or some other app can be used to do that:

    tar czf - / | burncd -arg1 arg2 blah...

    So every night I just mount a blank CD and let a cron job
    do the backup;)

    I know there could be gotchas, like when the CD is not empty, etc.

    Is anyone already doing this?

    Are you willing to share the methodology?

    -Wash

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