Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:49:22PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:24:38PM -0500, I wrote: > > I have completed tests with small files, and am now running a test w/ > > 8GB or so of data. > > It works, using shunt/flyisofs. I will be making offsite backups much much > mor

Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:24:38PM -0500, I wrote: > I have completed tests with small files, and am now running a test w/ > 8GB or so of data. It works, using shunt/flyisofs. I will be making offsite backups much much more than I will be restoring them, and this is fairly easy: shunt

Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:21:52PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > > ...It's not in the ports tree, but I will look into what it can do, if it > > works for me I will report back, and then port it. :) > > Always good! Yes, testing

Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:02PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > ISTR that there was a piece of software called 'shunt' that would pipe a > > specified amount of data into certain commands, then close and re-open > > the pipe. This

Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:38:02PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > ISTR that there was a piece of software called 'shunt' that would pipe a > specified amount of data into certain commands, then close and re-open > the pipe. This is basically what split does, but writing to a pipe > instead of fil

Re: dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-06 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:09:09PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > I have a small network with a central backup server; backup has been to > hard drive, compressed. > > I have begun experimenting with using dump(8) to split partitions in to > manageable units for burning onto DVD+RW. > > I am posting

dump(8) -> dvd: best practices?

2007-02-05 Thread Josh Grosse
I have a small network with a central backup server; backup has been to hard drive, compressed. I have begun experimenting with using dump(8) to split partitions in to manageable units for burning onto DVD+RW. I am posting to see if anyone else is using dump with optical media; I'm interested in