Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > star seems to be perfect. I'll use it. > > Is it safe to try to use -tsize without -multivol ? Does it increase the > chances to restore an archive if one dvd is lost ? In theory yes, there is a new bug since yesterday

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * I did try afio which runs each single file through gzip and was quite > robust against a few changed bytes in data area as well metadata. > > I don't think afio can handle incremental, but you have to feed it a > list of files which could b

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread scdbackup
Hi, > First: try to write and mount a cd > ... > Everything is ok, except I still have strange messages in log: > kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > kernel: hdc: irq timeout: error=0x00 > kernel: hdc: DMA disabled > kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Looks clearly ill. Since you

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Herrmann
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:05:24 +0200 Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for my english being hard to understand. > I was told that an error on a tar achive can make it impossible to > restore a file from a non corrupted part of the archive. Is it true ? * If you run tar with

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jean-Christophe Michel wrote : >>* my question was: any idea why a correctly burned dvd cannot be mounted ? > > I read your message of yesterday, tried your commands, > and they worked fine for me. Shrug. :/ >>From my own experience with several incident reports > abou

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread scdbackup
Jean-Christophe Michel wrote : > > * my question was: any idea why a correctly burned dvd cannot be mounted ? I read your message of yesterday, tried your commands, and they worked fine for me. Shrug. >From my own experience with several incident reports about weirdly behaving DVD i would point

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Serice
> Another info I grabbed from /var/log/messages tells: > > kernel: hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 > kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 > kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hd

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Paul Serice wrote: > Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: >> (debian sid, kernel 2.6.8) >> >> # mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, >>or too many mounted file systems > > I was getting this error under somewhat similar circumstances when

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Backups made with star on the other side may be read back with any > > POSIX compliant tar program. You only miss the ability to automatically > > restore incremental backups in this case, but any single file may be > > retrieved > > on any ta

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Joerg Schilling wrote: >>* star doesn't seem to be distributed and packaged as debian package, dar is > > star is available as debian package! Ah, true. Excuse-me. I'm going to use it then! >>* my interest is in doing slices for dvds, and have each of them be >>readable even if one is lost/unrea

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Joerg Schilling wrote: I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. >>> >>>dar? >> >>http://dar.linux.free.fr/ >>packet dar: >>Description: Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files >> Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, >> compression, ATTR/ACL sup

Re: Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thks for your answer. > > >> I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. > > > > dar? > > http://dar.linux.free.fr/ > packet dar: > Description: Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files > Full featured archiver with support for di

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Serice
Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > (debian sid, kernel 2.6.8) > > # mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, >or too many mounted file systems I was getting this error under somewhat similar circumstances when I was working on shunt. The p

Re: Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Thks for your answer. >> I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. > > dar? http://dar.linux.free.fr/ packet dar: Description: Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also

Re: growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-13 Thread Karl-Heinz Herrmann
Hi, On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:10:33 +0200 Jean-Christophe Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. dar? > # growisofs -dvd-compat -R -J -Z /dev/hdc $1/$file1 $1/$file2 Well, according to *my* manpage of growisofs you put the command flags meant for

growisofs writes unreadable dvd+rw

2005-04-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi, I'm trying to backup a system using dar + growisofs. I have two files of 2Go-2k that I try to write to a dvd+rw. growisofs seems to do it well, but I cannot mount the dvd to check it. Any pointer ? I already read everything I found :/ (debian sid, kernel 2.6.8) # growisofs -dvd-compat -R -J -