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10.10: CD

Asked by peter

Hello

I downloaded keen to make a backup. Keen asks where it should store the files. I would create a backup on a floppy.

How can I find the cd-drive in the tree of directories of keep? Where is the CD hidden? Keep shows me the folllowing directories:

bin
boot
cdrom (is empty)
dev
etc
home
lib
lost+found
media (contains the USB stick and floppy and floppy0)
mnt
opt
proc
root
sbin
selinux
srv
sys
tmp
user
var

Thanks a lot.
Peter

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Parts of your question are contradictory:
>I would create a backup on a __floppy__.
>How can I find the __cd-drive__ in the tree of directories of keep?

I am not sure if selecting keep is the best choice, http://jr.falleri.free.fr/keep/wiki/Home tells "Warning: Keep is no longer maintained..."

I have never used keep and do not know if and how it can make a backup on floppy, or cd, or whatever you want.

In any case your cd device should be found as /dev/cdrom or /dev/scd0 or something similar.
If you try this command
ls -l /dev | grep cd
is there any thing shown?

For possible other packages for creating backups see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem#Backup%20Utilities

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#2

Thanks, man. I was wrong, I meant a CD not a floppy. Thank you.

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#3

This is the output of ls -l /dev | grep cd:

peter@peter:~$ ls -l /dev | grep cd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2011-02-09 09:29 cdrom -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2011-02-09 09:29 cdrw -> sr0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2011-02-09 09:29 pktcdvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2011-02-09 09:29 scd0 -> sr0
crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 1 2011-02-09 09:29 sg1
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2011-02-09 09:29 sr0