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Thanks Peter, Tony and Grant for your comments. I'll take on board your suggestions re. error checking and compression. After some quick reading I think the mount point issue is a misinterpretation on my part.
As I've said all this is new to me and at the moment Google and "Linux in a Nutshell" are my best friends (although the latter can be a bit cryptic). Hopefully I can cobble something together in the very near future and post it for your appraisal.
Some background: We have three large projects containing artwork and text which have steadily grown in size. It's become a real chore to do a daily backup with CD-RWs. Shoveling in CDs is not our idea of time well spent. (While I'm away from home my wife has to do the backup. Nuff said!!)
Thus we decided to backup to DVD-RW and, as there is lttle else besides the projects in my /home directory, it would save some time if we backed up the whole directory. Unfortunately we could'nt find anything that would do the job for us so we decided that I would gather what info I could find on burning DVD-RWs and write a script.
Keith -- A Linux System SuSE 9.0 on ECS KS5A/XP with 1.2GHz Athlon, 384MB RAM, 20GB Maxtor HD and using Mozilla-Thunderbird
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