SOHO Backups?

[Jason Stephenson]

John Abreau wrote:
> 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.
> 


Yep, but I never got the untar bit to work, even with the same device 
name. Might try it again sometime.