Yeah I've been reading up on the developer documentation for bacula and it seems that volumes written in a bacula-specific format. http://bacula.org/developers/Overall_Storage_Format.html covers this. Back to the original post, yes, Joe is correct in that I'm talking about backing up to CD or DVD but not actually burning them with bacula. I'd like for bacula to do everything except for writing the media -- just grow the ISO and leave it on my server where I can retrieve and burn it later. Specifically, I want to do this to back up large amounts of multimedia that I don't want to add into my daily tape cycle. Occasionally I could just manually run a full backup of said files and store it all on DVD, but my DVDRW is in my win32 workstation.
Thanks, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Joe Stump > Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2005 18:48 > To: Knut E.Meidal > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? > > Yeah, the original post was about creating (full?) backups directly > as images. Ie. instead of a bacula volume the volume would be an ISO > file that he could then burn. > > What I was asking is if there is any way to mount a bacula volume > that was written to disk. The entire thing is one big file. If it's > an ISO, then yeah I can mount it on loopback, if it's some > proprietary bacula thing then I'd either need baculavolume2iso or an > fs driver that would let me mount my bacula volumes. > > --Joe > > On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > > > Using a loopback would work fine for a read/write filesystem. I do > > that > > all the time. > > > > Maybe I read too much into it, but > > if I understood the original poster, he was looking for mounting a > > loop > > device/file, writing to it to create a file in ISO format that > > could be > > burned as-is into a useable CD or DVD. > > > > This is where I think there would be a problem. I doubt you can > > expect a > > useable ISO image after regular reads/writes/copy to and > from the loop > > back image file. > > > > Boy, would I like to be wrong on this... I'd love to be > able to do it. > > > > Knut Meidal > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Joshua > > Kugler > > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM > > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? > > > > > > What about using a loopback? > > > > j----- k----- > > > > On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: > > > >> This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty > >> much > >> > > > > > >> kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a > >> Linux > >> > > > > > >> file system driver or something for bacula volumes. > >> > >> --Joe > >> > >> On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: > >> > >>> I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to > DVD, though I > >>> haven't looked very closely at it before. It has > recently occurred > >>> to me that I > >>> might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I > >>> want to > >>> purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't > >>> already > >>> possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD > >>> backups can be > >>> performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is > >>> made > >>> which can be burned later or on another machine? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Chris > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>> SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > >>> September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > >>> Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & > >>> Teams * Testing & QA > >>> Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ > >>> bsce5sf > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Bacula-users mailing list > >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Joseph C. 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