Nightly backup using CD-ROM

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:
: 
: > I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM
: > with sessions.
: > 
: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html
: > 
: > My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without
: > having to run fixate?  It obviously doesn't mount like a regular CD until
: > then.
: 
: You should be able to fixate the disk and still add more sessions
: later, shouldn't you?  It will waste a little space, but not horrible
: amounts...

I can give this a shot.  I *thought* I tried it and got an error, but I might
be wrong.

jm
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