Hi, > So, I want to be able to "tar -cf file.tar /mnt/sda4" and "growisofs -Z > /dev/dvd/ -udf file.tar". I guess that to be able to do it, I should use > a pipe, but I don't know how to do it.
My two cents. Number 1: tar cf - /mnt/sda4 | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 will write the tar archive rawly to DVD. To be read from unmounted DVD with tar tvf /dev/dvd Better archivers for this purpose are afio and Joerg's star. They recognize the end of an archive and thus do not have problems with the fuzzy end of a DVD. find . | afio -oZ - | growisofs ... resp. star -c -acl -link-dirs level=0 . | gzip | growisofs ... If you need a mountable filesystem with an archive file in it: mkisofs -stream-media-size can put a stream into a dingle file ISO9660 file system. I never tried this myself. One would have to put the mkisofs command into the pipe between archiver command and growisofs. Number 2: My project http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html provides multi volume backup in formats ISO-9660, afio or star. The appropriate commands would be sdvdbackup_afio . resp. in star format export SDVDBACKUP_AFIO="$(scdbackup -where scripts)/star_as_afio_wrapper -acl" sdvdbackup_afio . Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
