Portable backups?

[Atro Tossavainen]

> I can't use mkisofs because it does not preserve permissions, truncates
> names at 32 characters, and seems to have bugs that prevent it's CD-R's
> from being read correctly.

What mkisofs is this?

You need the -R (or -r) (Rock Ridge) option to preserve long UNIX file
names and UNIX permissions.

There is a set of options in reasonably modern mkisofses to generate HFS
CD's.  I'd guess the mkisofs you're using is some ancient version that
shouldn't have been used in five years.

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