Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:13:39PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > > This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not sure if > > you completely understand the situation. I *DON'T* want data to be > > recovered from the drive, and

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I wonder about returning it under warranty. > If the data has sufficient sensitivity, it might be easiest > to eat the cost of a new replacement drive. The net-cost > would be reduced by the time spent trying to destroy the data. > I'm trying to get the warranty replac

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot the > > > machine into Knoppix or like ilk and use dd_rescue to copy the disk to > > > an image file or another disk. dd_rescue is smar

restoring from DVDs

2006-08-04 Thread Laurence Darby
Hi All, So one of my disks crashed before I had time to test all the DVD's I backed up to can be read, so I'm currently testing that now... :-/ Haven't had any read errors yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed :) BTW, it was actually one disk of nice and fast RAID 0 (so I'm restoring to t

Re: Burning backup to dvd

2006-07-26 Thread Laurence Darby
Anne Wilson wrote: > I use amanda to create backups that are split to fit on a dvd, but so > far I have not been able to create the dvd using k3b. It may be a > permissions problem, or it may be a k3b problem. I have tried to > make the backup by running k3b as amanda, and also by running k3b as

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-23 Thread Laurence Darby
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:07, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:29:14AM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but I > > > couldn't

backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Laurence Darby
Hi, I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but I couldn't see it in the Faq-O-Matic. Bascially I have a 30GB directory (/home) and 50 4.7GB DVD-Rs. Is there any support in Amanda for backing up to DVD-Rs? Actually, the only thing I'm looking for is the capability to divide t