Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:57:50 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FX Charpentier <charpentierfx@yahoo.com>, James <jamesh@lanl.gov>, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem Message-ID: <20071106085621.I7058@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20071106064931.GA74225@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <140051.50393.qm@web36205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071106064931.GA74225@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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> I use dump with the following options (e.g. for /usr);
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> dump -0 -B 4589560 -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -P \
> 'cat - >usr-0-20071106-vol${DUMP_VOLUME}.dump' /usr
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> This splits dump output in DVD-R sized chunks.
completely strange
better
-f file1,file2,file3,.....
(you may type more files than actually needed).
one unneeded extra pipe avoided.
if you use pipe, use with growisofs.
BUT with DVD+RW disks you may use /dev/cd0 directly as dump device
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