From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 16:16:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16729 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16700 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA23954; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: kjep@kajen.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup with CD-WR In-Reply-To: <19980730200538.13575.rocketmail@web4.rocketmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Johan Petersson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering buying a CD-RW to use for backup under FreeBSD 2.2.6 > and Windows 95. However, before I commit my self to anything I would need > to know if there is an easy way to back up a file system that is larger > than can be fitted onto one CD-RW? I guess one way would be to manually > setup the backup by selecting individual directories until one CD is > full, then skip to the next. You can configure dump(8) with the ''size'' of the media. It'll prompt you for a new tape when that size is reached. > It would be nice if this could be done automatically, preferably so > that a restore could be done simply by copying the files back to the > HD. Also, not having to use too much temporary storage space would be > nice, preferably only the 650MB needed to fill the CD. The problem is burning the CD; you'd have to pipe the output of dump to cdrecord and hope that dump can keep up the dataflow and not spam the SCSI bus too much. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message