Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs.

2005-01-29 Thread Julien Gabel
>>> I'm in the same boat as Xian. I want to backup to DVD so I can >>> upgrade to 5.3. dump in 4.10 does not have a -P option, and growisofs >>> says nothing about handling spanning, so how do I span my dump over >>> multiple DVDs? >>> >>> Then some day if all goes well I will split /usr into /us

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-29 Thread Ian Moore
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:30, Xian wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2005 01:51, Carleton Vaughn wrote: > > Ian Moore wrote: > > > Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: > > > dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 > > > ' /usr This gives

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-29 Thread Xian
On Saturday 29 January 2005 01:51, Carleton Vaughn wrote: > Ian Moore wrote: > > Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: > > dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 ' > > /usr This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-28 Thread Carleton Vaughn
Ian Moore wrote: Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 ' /usr This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on them. You can then boot from CD2 (live system) and use restore to rest

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-28 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:49, Xian wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:39, Xian wrote: > > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:37, Ian Moore wrote: > > > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&co > > > >nt en t-type=text

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-27 Thread Xian
On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:39, Xian wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:37, Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&cont > > >en t-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Cheers, > > That's exactly what I

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-27 Thread Xian
On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:37, Ian Moore wrote: > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&conten > >t-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Cheers, That's exactly what I'm looking for thanks. I tried it with a CD-RW like this d

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-27 Thread Ian Moore
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:23, Ian Moore wrote: > 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 t

Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-27 Thread Ian Moore
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 ba

Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

2005-01-26 Thread Xian
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