I need to back up some of my data. It's definately not huge(sometimes maybe 9 megs?), so I would like to be able to, I think the term is "close the session but not the cd". That way I can write to the CD today, and a week later be able to read from it, but also append a new backup. (as long as there is space left on the CD)

1) What software would you recommend? And why? I'm asking because there seems to be so many burners I don't know where to start ?

2) Does it matter If I backup files from ext3 partitioned drive and a fat32 drive onto the same CD session? (can the source use different filesystems?)

3) What filesystem is the most common/should be used so the backup CD can be read from Windows and Linux? Or don't I have to worry about this?

thanks for your time,
--monkey

Technically, all Linux GUI Software for CD burning uses the same command line tools in the background. So you should simply use the GUI tool you like most - the technical results will always be the same.

I personally prefer K3B for everyday work, it's quite easy to use.
If you want to to more fine tuning, you might have a look at xcdroast.


No, as long as Linux can read the source file system it doesn't matter.


CD-ROMs all have the ISO9660 file system (special cases and historic hardware excluded), readable on both Linux and Windows. No reason to worry ;-)


Regards
ric.

I just downloaded k3b and was about to install it, but, in INSTALL, it says1) Is this dangerous to set cdrecord to suid root?

2)If the second option is safer (create a cd burning group, add myself to it) how would I do that?