making ISO images

Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:17:15 -0400


>OK, I'm looking to back up my home directory on my machine at work
>to CDR.  The problem is that my workstation doesn't have a burner,
>so I need to build the ISO (actually more than one...) on my machine,
>then copy it over to another machine to actually do the burn.  So
>I was looking for a tool that would allow me to select a bunch of
>directories, add up the total space so I know that it will fit on
>a disc, then make an ISO image with all that data.  I tried xcdroast,
>gcombust, and koncd, and none of them seemed to work very well for
>what I was trying to do.
>
>Any suggestions on other programs to try?

mkisofs -o backup.iso [path]/* && scp backup.iso
user@machine.with.cdrw:/path

Doesn't `xcdroast` require that you have mkisofs on your system to run
properly?

PaulM