Hi, Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli: > But I need to store intermediate archives on some filesystem, which I > was trying to avoid.
If you can talk your backup system into starting a pipe of afio | cdrskin -multi then this should be achievable. cdrskin is my offer of a burn backend. You need at least version 0.3.6 for writing DVD-R. Source tarball and x86 binaries of 0.4.0 are available at: http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html I did not succeed in talking growisofs to burn multi-session with non-ISO formats. Maybe if one studies the argument interpreter of growisofs.c then one could find a way to do so. Hehe, there must be some sport where cdrskin is more easy than growisofs, after all. :)) me: > > I prefer to format them to overwriteable state: > > dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0 > > This avoids the need for lengthy full blanking before > > re-use. Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli: > Good to know! I have to point out that formatted DVD-RW are not capable of multi-session. If the image format is always ISO-9660 then one can emulate multi-session because the image size is stored at a well defined position. But with afio or star archives it is not easily possible to determine the size of the valid payload. (It is not impossible if one is willing to read the whole payload plus some trailing garbage.) So DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and formatted DVD-RW are not suitable for my proposal in the previous mail. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
