> Hello > > Disks keep getting bigger :-( Good and bad, good because it makes it less likely that data is overwritten, bad because it makes finding that data harder. > It is straight forward to split up a large disk in to CD-R size chunks but > am I missing something painfully obvious for a reconstruction of a disk from > said CD-Rs? I assume you need a large holding disk in order to How are you splitting it up exactly? That sort of is important. Also what are you backing up, the entire device, or the partitions? > cat img.1 img.2 img.3 etc etc > /dev/disk-whatever (or using | dd > of=/dev/disk and options to maintain blocksizes, etc) > > [gzip, zcat, etc could be used to reduce the image sizes but becomes > somewhat hard to predict with regard to compressibility without a dry-run] > > Is there any easy way to append from individual CDs to a device file? sure. use dd. dd has lots of nifty options. > Feel free to point out the painfully obvious and any hints as to what to do > as disks get way too big ;-) > > Cheers > Neil Assuming it's a backup image of some type lay it back onto a disk and it should work, or if you only backed up the partition (as opposed to the whole device) you should be able to mount it using a loopback filesystem. Kurt Seifried, kurtat_private A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://www.seifried.org/security/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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