From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 09:57:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9B216A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0635043D4C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:57:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (wojtek@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5H9uxNn012974; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id j5H9uwNY013137; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:56:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:56:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: James Riendeau In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:57:11 -0000 > I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it > goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out > how to dump to it: > > # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 > # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' > /usr > with both DVD+RW and DVD-RW i was able to write DIRECTLY to /dev/ under NetBSD if only blocks were 32k should be possible with FreeBSD too. > A test restore comes out clean: > > # restore -Nxvb /dev/cd0 > > The problem is most of the partitions are tiny (< 1G) and I would like to > fit more then one partition on each DVD. I figured just passing -M (append > data) instead of -Z (new session) would do it: > > # dump -0 -uL -C16 -a -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -M /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /home > > But growisofs fails with :-( /dev/cd0 doesn't look like isofs..., and of > course dump fails with "Broken pipe". > > Any clues to how to get this to work? (Webpage link is sufficient if there > is something out there. I couldn't find one.) > > I'm fairly new to the FreeBSD/UNIX world, so please be gentle. > > Thanks, > > -james > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >