Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 08:11:02PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: Thanks everyone for your help, especially you Anne, as I based my setup on what you've done. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but there's a lot of stuff to know, and the documentation isn't exactly in the same league as

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-23 Thread Laurence Darby
(/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 the 30GB into 4.7GB chunks, or slightly smaller to fit on a 4.7GB ext2 loopback file which can be burned to DVD. I tried using 'tar

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:17, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Make a holding area, and use dump with a tape size of just slightly less than the DVD-R size. Tell dump to generate manifests and quick file access data. Then, all you

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:20, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:17, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Make a holding area, and use dump with a tape size of just slightly less than the DVD-R size. Tell dump to generate

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

RE backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Cyrille Bollu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit sur 12/07/2006 11:29:14 : 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

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
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 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

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
. 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 the 30GB into 4.7GB chunks, or slightly smaller to fit on a 4.7GB ext2 loopback file which can be burned to DVD. I tried using 'tar --multi-volume', which sort

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:29:14AM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: 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 the 30GB into 4.7GB chunks

Re: backing up to DVD-Rs

2006-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:17, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Make a holding area, and use dump with a tape size of just slightly less than the DVD-R size. Tell dump to generate manifests and quick file access data. Then, all you have to do is burn each dump file to a DVD-R in pre-prepared mode