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Re: dump/restore with a CD-R drive

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Subject: Re: dump/restore with a CD-R drive
From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:17:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Dennis Favro <dennis.favro@utoronto.ca> wrote:

>    How do I go about using dump and restore with a CD-R drive?

You dump to a holding partition and transfer the dump archives
(piecemeal if necessary) to CD with the usual tools such as mkisofs
and cdrecord.

For restoring, read the archive (pieces) back from the CD onto the
holding partition and restore from there.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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