No, Eric, I'm probably not doing anything different than you. 
I do use 'mkisofs' to create the file to burn, 
and then 'cdrecord' to burn my backup CD. 

Since my work is comprised mostly of files that are text based with 
few audio, video, or other space-hog files, I'm still able to back up 
my main home directory (consisting of work and archives dating back 
to 1978 on a single CD.  I keep digital photos in a separate subdir and 
burn backup CDs of them separately.  Haven't gotten into audio yet ;)) 

I have my entire backup procedure built into a simple shell script 
named 'burncd' so all I need to do is 'su' to root and type: 'burncd" 
from the command line and switch screens (desktops) to go about 
my work ... although I generally do it manually with the steps listed 
below which allows for some variations. 

Since I'm running win4lin in order to be able to use Pagemaker 
and test my websites with Internet Destroyer (aka Explorer), and 
of course, the 'win' subdirectory in my home directory is huge, 
I just 'mv' win up one level before making a backup, and then 'mv' 
it back down into my home directory after the backup is done. 

First, shutdown Windows and close any open files and running programs. 
1. cd /home/joe 
2. su  (to root) 
3. mv win .. 
4. cd .. 
5. mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe 
6. ll  (to be sure the 'cdimage' file is still small enough to fit ;)) 
7. place blank CDR in cd burner drive 
8. cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage 

When the burn is finished: 
9. mount /mnt/cdrom 
10. ls -ltr /mnt/cdrom  (to check the contents of new cd) 
11. umount /mnt/cdrom 
12. mv -i win joe/win (to put the win subdirectory back) 

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Eric Shubes wrote: 
> I'd like to learn a bit more about the process.
> What is the exact cdrecord command you use?
> I have created backups using mkisofs, burned the iso image. 
> Are you skipping the mkisofs step, or does cdrecord handle that for you?

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On Saturday 23 April 2005 21:58, you wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > I use cdrecord from the command line to burn a cd backup
> > of all of my home directory files, and when I do that, the
> > process displays a long list of files ... 

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