[Preston] CD burning with cdrecord

Steve Taylor preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 20 18:29:01 2003


> I want to back up some stuff on CD-R using cdrecord. The stuff
> (uncompressed
> audio) is in various directories and I don't want to / cant be
> bothered to,
> alter the existing directory structure, but I also don't need to
> back up all the directories.
>
> Can I create a new directory and in it place symbolic links to the
> directories I want to save, then use the upper directory as the input
> directory for cdrecord?

I tried it and it didn't work for me :-( Instead I had to actually move the
dirs I wanted mkisofs to use to a temp folder on the same partition then
move them back afterwards.

If anyone knows a better way, I'd appreciate hearing it!

Steve