X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.
CDRX.pl is a perl script designed to handle CD-R/W device setup, CD-R/W blanking, burning, and ISO creation. It can create ISO's or burn CD-R/W's from another CD, from a directory of files, or even allows you to choose a "mix" of files.
This bash script, in conjunction with a java program, will backup your mysql database(s) to a file using mysqldump, and gzips it. Depending on setup, it will either e-mail you the file, or leave it in the installation directory.