SOHO Backups?

[John Abreau]

Jason Stephenson wrote:
> 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.

I once mistakenly burned a .mpg file onto a cd without making an iso 
image first. I noticed my error when I popped it into my dvd player and 
it didn't recognize it.

When I stuck it back in my PC and ran "mplayer /dev/cdrom", it played 
just fine.


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