From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 21:26:01 2006 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 B940916A467 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:26:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AE843D45 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:25:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@mangohealth.org) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 4BA485DC3; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:25:58 -0900 (AKST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from [192.168.2.131] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5435D07; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:25:56 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Mangohealth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:25:32 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <4425AC1A.9010201@gti.net> <20060325210043.6699.qmail@ssr.com> In-Reply-To: <20060325210043.6699.qmail@ssr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1688261.vD5dgThQIg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603251225.52681.beech@mangohealth.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Dump to DVD problem. 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: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:26:01 -0000 --nextPart1688261.vD5dgThQIg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:00, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am > using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: > > dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 / > > to backup the root filesystem. I do this after going to single user > mode. > > It seems that dump is perhaps not properly closing the file? The DVD > drive light remains on, and I get errors from restore: > > tape read error: Unknown error: 0 > > dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/cd0 is more informative: > > /dev/cd0: unable to open: Device busy > > I *can* dump to a file on a filesystem, and use growisofs to write > this dump file to the DVD. No problems mounting and reading the > resulting dump file. Unfortunately, I do not have enough free disk > space to do this with my larger file systems. > > This is with 5.3-RELEASE. Try: dump -0au -L -f /dev/cd0 / I also had problems when I specified the size.=20 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1688261.vD5dgThQIg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEJbVg2TFLCHYGSF0RArvRAJ9uaXVHxOJyIfMcX8MeBfp92VeAwwCeNlSC 5LdDC/iv6I6QIV+OV1F3k/8= =6mOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1688261.vD5dgThQIg--