Backups to DVD under CentOS 3 May 2007
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Did a full backup of the server last night in anticipation of installing VMware today.
First I had to install the dvd tools.
sudo yum install dvd+rw-tools
Then I did a made a temporary directory and did a full tar to it,
mkdir /tmp/backup.20070502 sudo tar cvzf /tmp/backup.20070502/all.tgz --exclude /tmp --exclude /sys --exclude /proc / > /tmp/backup.20070502/all.list
checked the size to make sure it would fit on a DVD,
du -s -B 1048576 backup.20070502/
and copied it there.
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -joliet-long /tmp/backup.20070502
After it was finished, I mounted the DVD,
mount /media/cdrecorder
and tested that I could read the files.
cat /media/cdrecorder/all.list tar tvfz /media/cdrecorder/all.tgz
