Re: life of CF card

>> I have a Powerbook with a PC card slot and an appropriate adapter for
>> my CF card.  Does anyone have a good solution for backing up a CF
>> card using a Mac, for instance, writing the contents of the CF card
>> to a file on my Powerbook in some way?
>
> Hopefully, the device is accessible via /dev/wd.. or something  
> similar.  If you
> know which device fd to use, you can simply `cat /dev/wd0 | gzip >  
> backup.gz`.
> But that means that, in order to restore your backup, you really  
> ought to
> restore it to a CF card that is completely identical to the card  
> your backup
> came from.  Otherwise, you will need to figure out how to mount the  
> card and tar
> up the filesystem.  I don't know the BSDs all that well, and  
> probably couldn't
> give you advice on how to do that sort of thing.

Does anyone else have any good backup solutions?

Thanks,
isen