mkcdrec

[Asheville Joe]

Hi.  I'm trying to learn how to use mkcdrec to back up my system.
I installed mkcdrec-v0.7.2-1.i386.rpm and ran it.  I told it to write to 
my removeable hard disk.
I'm not sure it's configured to work correctly with Mandrake 9.1 (rc2).

Before I burn a bunch of coasters, I have some questions.

Questions:
Why did it still try to burn a CD?   (I don' t have the command line or 
menu options I used any more, but I was convinced I told it to save to 
disk, not CDROM, and it did save the files to my second hard drive.)

What happens if you or a program forms a file ref like 
/var/opt/mkcdrec/stage//lib ... with two adjacent slashes in it?

If it worked correctly, it made and checked backups of:

Doing integrity testing on backups.

hda6._boot.log.gz:       OK
hda7._.log.gz:           OK
hda9._home.log.gz:       OK
  rd-base.img.bz2: ok

I still need backups of hda1 and hda5 (Windoze partitions).  I assume 
that hda 2 - 4 are unused and since hda8 is swap, it doesn't requre backup.
How can I easily backup Windoze so that I could (theoretically) reformat 
the partitions and reload it just like it was - ready to boot?  (I like 
the idea of image backups like dump and restore use, but I'm not sure 
exactly how to do it.)

I would like to set it up for regular (cron job?) backups to my second 
hard drive and also do occasional backups to CDROM.  This will only work 
if I can convince it not to try to burn CDROMS when it's running as a 
regular (unattended) backup.

It produced 21 pages of output (attached).  There were some 
"interesting" messages in it.  Are any of them significant?

WARNING: MAKEDEV was not found.  Skipped.

WARNING: kerneld was not found.  Skipped.

++++++++++++++ ldconfig +++++++++++++
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig: Path `/lib' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't stat /initrd/lib: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't stat /mnt/cdrom/superrescue/lib: No such file or 
directory
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't stat /mnt/cdrom/usr/lib: No such file or directory
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 is not a symbolic link

Check integrity of rd-base.img.bz2.
/var/opt/mkcdrec/scripts/initrd.sh
ls: sfdisk*: No such file or directory
ls: cutstream*: No such file or directory
ls: pastestream*: No such file or directory
ls: cksfv*: No such file or directory
ls: syslinux*: No such file or directory

(similar messages twice more)

No unix.o found to load.
No ext2.o found to load.
No ide-mod.o found to load.
No ide-probe-mod.o found to load.

No inflate_fs.o found to load.

No ide-disk.o found to load.

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