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Hi All,

I just wrote a nifty bash script that backs up up a home directory to multiple CDs using hdiutil, gzip, ditto, and split.  I'd like to include in the disk image a script/program to reconstitute the backup image, but I don't know of any way to prompt the user to insert a disk.  (hdiutil takes care of it automatically when burning.)

Remember the good old days when MacOS 6.x asked you to Please Insert Disk over and over again?    That's the idea, except not an infinite loop.  And also copying useful things to the hard drive and then putting them back together.

Suggestions?  C/C++/Objective-C/shell commands all welcome.  Or AppleScript, I guess.  I'm running 10.2, though I'll be upgrading to 10.4 eventually.

Thanks!

edit:

Or if someone could just help me find out where the source code for drutil (part of 10.3) can be found, I'll compile it myself. 

Last edited by mysterd429 (2005-04-05 2:31 am)