Linux and OSX

bigbubba · #1 July 23rd, 2004, 04:47 PM

Hi everyone,

This is a question for all you unix experts out there. I have 2 systems a mac osx laptop with a dvdr and a large 1tb file server running debian unstable. I cannot seem to get debian to burn dvds to an external burner so I wanted to burn backups of important parts of the tb file server to dvds via the mac.

What is the best way to burn without having to dump each set over the network to the mac box and then burn it. NFS?

Anyone have any reccomendations on how to accomplish this? Tape backup drives are too expensive to be considered.

thanks!

symphonix · #2 July 25th, 2004, 09:33 PM

You have a couple of options.
You might use the Linux machine to create an ISO image of what you want to burn, then grab that on your Mac and use Disk Copy or Toast Titanium to burn to CD/DVD.
The other option is simply to mount the Linux machine as a network share on the Mac, using NFS, Samba/Windows or if all else fails FTP, then simply use Toast or Diskcopy to burn to CD/DVD.