[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a cron job that backs up a FreeBSD server's files to DVD+RW > media each evening using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools port. There > are some files that I need to recover, but the problem is, the last 2 > weeks of backups were a few hundred megabytes too large, and > overburned.
AFAIK you can't overburn DVDs. > Is there any way to recover data from these overburned DVDs? I tried > mounting them from FreeBSD, Windows and Mac systems without success. I > also tried running "cat /dev/acd0 | gzip > data.iso.gz" in an attempt > to grab the raw bits of the disk, but that only resulted in an > input/output error. You could try readcd and isoinfo (/usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools-devel) but those "few hundred megabytes" at the end will still be lost. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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