[CS-FSLUG] ISO backups of removable media

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:05 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've been wondering how to make backups of my removable usb drive in Linux
> and mkisofs came to mind, now I've only got one problem with that, how do I
> make sure the ISO was made properly and should the need arise how would I
> rewrite the ISO image back to the USB drive?
>
> If perhaps using mkisofs isn't the best way to make backups what then
> should I use?

If you modprobe loop you can mount an ISO with the 
mount -t iso5993 /dir/to/iso/expample.iso /mnt/dir
command. I'm not sure on the command, but it's pretty close to that. YOu can 
look inside any iso image with this method. Pretty neat eh?

JSR/