[ILUG] Re: does afio work with cdrecord?

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:59:32PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brian Foster thought:
> 
>  if you want to use split(1) ??? and there _may_
>  be a better method ??? I'd suggest instead of
>  blindly `split'ing the tar(1) archive, break
>  it apart in-between archived files (i.e., at
>  file boundaries).  be sure to append `tar's
>  EoA mark to each part.
> 
>  by breaking at saved-file-boundaries, you
>  reduce the Risk by eliminating at least one
>  of the complicating variables:  each CD is
>  always a properly-formed archive.  _and_,
>  because each CD is essentially a complete
>  archive, you don't have to first cat(1)
>  all yer CDs back together into one huge
>  reassembled archive .... probably a winner!
> 
>  now, what might be a better method is to use

or what might be an even better than that method is to use mondoarchive
which {as it happens} uses both afio and cdrecord.  It uses a whole lot
more too but it would, being a bare-metal disaster recovery system.
http://www.mondorescue.org

Conor 
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