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Offline vishrut_n_shah

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Backup to Rewritable CD
« on: February 17, 2011, 02:47:21 PM »
Hello ,

         I have made bootable TinyCoreLinux Rewritable CD . But at the time of exit it wont allow me to backup my changes any more. It always starts with fresh copy.Is there any possible way to take Backup and retrive information.  :'(

        I also tried with FLASH drive and it allows to store my chages in mydata.tgz folder.


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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: Backup to Rewritable CD
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 03:08:47 PM »
AFAIK, TC does not inherently support to save to CD.
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Offline vishrut_n_shah

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Re: Backup to Rewritable CD
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 04:05:17 PM »
Can i do the following thing ??

step1 : I can make my backup with FLASH drive.
step2 : Then i add that folder (mydata.tgz) to my CD.

Will it work?? OR i ave to make some links between them ??  :-\

Thanks
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Backup to Rewritable CD
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 04:10:20 PM »
You cannot just write to a CD like you do to a hard drive.
You might want to check out remastering on the wiki.

Offline combo3

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Re: Backup to Rewritable CD
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 04:12:59 PM »
It's been a while since I've used re-writable CD's, but cdrecord (cdrtools.tcz) should work.

Just make sure the disk isn't mounted before you start recording your new iso.

You also have to erase the entire disk first.

The only drawback is that the CD-RW's seem to have a high failure rate after several cycles and never seem to work well in anything other than original drive. YMMV

http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/cdrecord.shtml