From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 09:53:29 2005 Return-Path: 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 92CEA16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:53:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A3243D66 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:53:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon.foo.lan (adsl-176-70.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.176.70]) by jupiter.picknowl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793AD96BEF; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:23:23 +1030 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:23:13 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7379634.JpYL0THR40"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> cc: Xian Subject: Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:53:29 -0000 --nextPart7379634.JpYL0THR40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:30, Xian wrote: > I don't have any DVD-Rs of any format yet so I was messing about with CDs. > I found I could burn files to the CD in a variety of ways but I can't get > them back again. > I've used dd and burncd to put the file onto a CD and dd sometimes gets > something back too, but never works properly. > Any ideas how to do this properly? I think this is what you are looking for (lists.freebsd.org seems to down a= t=20 the moment, so I can't confirm this is the thread I think it is): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064560.h= tml Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=3D4 -Z /dev/dvd=3D/dev/fd/0= ' /usr This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on them. You can= =20 then boot from CD2 (live system) and use restore to restore the data. If th= e=20 link above is the one I think it is, it gives you an example restore comman= d. Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart7379634.JpYL0THR40 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB+LoSfITqkXhImmIRArGhAJ9s2xU1hJfqfwGfRijKu+jbt5ZQEACePhY2 amYdsBUTX/QN9d3SMao6e24= =zUHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7379634.JpYL0THR40--