> That worked perfectly! I don't understand why. > Perhaps cdrdao has bug with very small files. You may report it to the maintainer. > I have been trying to back-up to CD-RW via tar and I could not get this to > work. Perhaps I won't be able to unless I can find a 650Mb area on my > hard-drive to store a file to write onto the CD. Or perhaps figure out a > way to append onto an existing CD-RW. IMO, you have to save the iso image on you hard disk then record it. It's a pity that cdrdao does not support pipe like cdrecord. Anyway, it's working and robust. Cheers, Qian