SOHO Backups?

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Thu Nov 17 11:13:01 EST 2005


Jason Stephenson wrote:

> I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat 
> it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an 
> urban legend.

You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. 
The problem is that you then don't have a filesystem on the CD-R, so you 
can't mount the disk like a normal CD; you need to read it back from the 
raw device the same way you wrote it.

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