Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wrote: > > > star -c -acl -link-dirs level=0 . | gzip | growisofs ... > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > For backups, I recommend to use star's "dump" format (created if you > > add -dump to the command line). > > We discussed this in August 2005 on star-users : > http://

Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-10 Thread scdbackup
Hi, I wrote: > > star -c -acl -link-dirs level=0 . | gzip | growisofs ... Joerg Schilling wrote: > For backups, I recommend to use star's "dump" format (created if you > add -dump to the command line). We discussed this in August 2005 on star-users : http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/star-user

Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > star -c -acl -link-dirs level=0 . | gzip | growisofs ... For backups, I recommend to use star's "dump" format (created if you add -dump to the command line). It allows to archive any file type (e.g. also sockets) and it adds more informations about the backup. Jö

Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-10 Thread scdbackup
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 ar

Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Serice
> Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > > 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. > > I use UDF as disc format since the resulting file is bigger than 2GB > (and it

Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to save a whole partition (about 2.5GB) on a brand new computer, booting a live CD Linux system (that is copied to RAM and ejected). All hard disk partitions are mounted as read-only. So, I want to be able to "tar -cf file.tar /mnt/sda4" and "growiso

a question on pipes and growisofs

2006-11-09 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, I'm trying to save a whole partition (about 2.5GB) on a brand new computer, booting a live CD Linux system (that is copied to RAM and ejected). All hard disk partitions are mounted as read-only. So, I want to be able to "tar -cf file.tar /mnt/sda4" and "growisofs -Z /dev/dvd/ -udf file.