From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 08:50:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C2B16A4DF for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (114-103-74-65.gci.net [65.74.103.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BB443D46 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:50:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id CFBED4543; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:50:26 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Alaska Paradise To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:50:09 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200609031510.58852.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <200609031718.23259.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060904020958.GA9563@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20060904020958.GA9563@teddy.fas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2181463.HaXzXp9Kca"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609040050.25450.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: stan Subject: Re: Dump to DVD (partially solved) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:50:28 -0000 --nextPart2181463.HaXzXp9Kca Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:09, stan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to > > > > multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out > > > > of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to > > > > add file size to the command, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I > > > > don't normally use DVD's so this is a bit new to me. > > > > > > What command are you using? tar? dump? ..... > > > > Dump.... dump -0au -L -f /dev/acd0 /usr > > > > It used to just prompt me to feed in another DVD. Now it errors out when > > the DVD is full. > > Hmm, the man page says that the -a option (which you are using), should > do just that.. odd. Have you played with teh -s option? No, but specifying -B4589840 in the line works. I have no Idea why it won't= =20 autodetect. Anyway, thanks for the help. This is a client's machine running= =20 6-STABLE, and I was hoping it wouldn't turn into a retirement project this= =20 weekend, which it didn't. If anyone wants to track this down, I'm in=20 (relatively) close proximity to the box, and I'll be more than happy to do= =20 some further testing later in the week. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2181463.HaXzXp9Kca Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE++jRp5D0B1NlT4URAqyfAJ0Ze4mKjeSiA6YWYqDTlUrk5u2OlACcDw1w vIq4IY4x2ME2j0WWuJ30GwA= =FQjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2181463.HaXzXp9Kca--