“As hard drives and networks grow, maintaining good backups
without going bananas becomes more of a challenge. A good tool to
add to your backup kit is a CD writer. Even when a CD-R/RW is too
small for a complete backup scheme, it comes in handy for smaller,
specialized uses. Part 1 of this two-part series will tell how to
use CD writers in Linux, while Part 2 will cover automating backups
with scripts using tools like tar and rsync.“CD writers have dropped in price enough to make sense as CD-ROM
drive replacements. Because restoring from a CD is fast and easy, I
like using CD-R/RWs to backup server configurations and to backup
the data of users with sensitive, mission-critical information. CDs
can be read on any computer, whereas restoring from tape is a
complicated process, to say the least. Users who can be trusted to
manage their own CD backups make life a little easier for the
overworked sysadmin…”
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