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storing backup on CDR
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Posted by: jmathey

Is it ok to store my backup image on a CDR? I'd do the initial restore from a hard drive, but for safe keeping, I'd like to store the backup on a CDR. Any special instructions such as format, etc? Without any instructions, I'd simply save it off as an ISO9660, anything wrong with this?

Regards
John

Posted by: maharg18

Just burn the backup file like you would any other file and it'll be fine.

Posted by: ksanders

Yea... burning your image to CDR is just fine. I backed my original image up to a CDR almost 2 years ago and pulled it out for the first time late last week. I pulled off the image and used it to restore my screwed up Hughes box. All worked well.

Posted by: srs5694

You can restore directly from the CD-R, in fact, assuming the MFS Tools Linux CD can read the CD-R. To that end, I'd recommend using a conventional CD-R burning package, like Easy CD Creator or Nero, rather than a packet-writing package that tries to make the CD-R look like a big floppy disk. Linux is more likely to have problems reading a CD-R created with a packet-writing package. Of course, even if Linux has problems reading the CD-R, you can copy the files to a hard disk under Windows, so it's not really that big of a deal.