Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Well I know this is a bit OT, but amanda can do spit 'dump's over multilple tapes/dvds/whatever. That way you also have an index of what's on what media etc. -- Martin On 9/4/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to

Re: Dump to DVD (partially solved)

2006-09-04 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:09, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to

Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the command, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I don't normally use DVD's

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command.

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when

Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Scott Ballantyne
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

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Beech Rintoul
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

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread David Scheidt
file systems. This is with 5.3-RELEASE. Try: dump -0au -L -f /dev/cd0 / dump -0 -unL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z \ /dev/cd1=/dev/fd/0' filesystem is what I use to dump to DVD+R and +RW. Change the speed to match your drive and media, and the dump level to match what you