Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:25:44 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011550956.5131e2@mired.org> Cc: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Message-ID: <00f700526051012FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com>
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 01:22 pm, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Brian T. Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> types:
> > On Monday 14 January 2002 01:31 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> > > Or maybe he meant to avoid saving the archive to hard disk by piping
> > > it to the CD burning program. I don't know if even the fastest system
> > > could do that, but it's easy enough to test and should be safe enough
> > > since the burning program will tell you if you don't feed it data fast
> > > enough.
> >
> > I did this all the time under Linux; even with a P-450 it worked just
> > fine as long as the system wasn't overtaxed (as in, load < 2), using the
> > stdin feature of cdrecord. I tried with burncd under FreeBSD and had no
> > success, though. Of course, cdrecord doesn't support stdin input so I
Drat. I meant "Of course, burncd doesn't support stdin . . . ."
> > had to set up a named pipe but I don't know why that would be a problem
> > in and of itself.
>
> cdrecord supports stdin - just use the file name "-". I pipe the
> output from mkisofs to cdrecord on a regular basis, and in general it
> works fairly well so long as I'm not loading the system to heavily (as
> in, load < 5). The slowest system I've had a CDRW on had dual Xeon
> 400s, though.
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