Backups-->SMB-->DVD-R

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Mon Mar 15 20:24:18 UTC 2004


On Monday 15 March 2004 01:41 pm, Jeff wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just decided that one of my boxes on my LAN needs a backup. It's only
> got a small HDD and no CDRW drive so it needs to use network resources.
> There's approx 3.5GB that needs backing up so it'll fit on a DVD-R.
>
> What's the easiest way to backup the root and /boot filesystems to an ISO
> file on a SMB share? Or is there an easier way that I'm overlooking?

You may want to check Mondo: www.mondorescue.org. It will write an ISO file. I 
don't know if it can write to SMB share, but I don't see why not


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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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