Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:33:23 +0100 From: Jan Sebosik <sebosik@demax.sk> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BACKUP: multiple DVDs, burning from pipe Message-ID: <4787A863.9070308@demax.sk> In-Reply-To: <20080111170430.GB83724@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <57024.158.193.82.109.1200042932.squirrel@webmail.demax.sk> <20080111170430.GB83724@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:15:32AM +0100, sebosik@demax.sk wrote: >> Hi all >> >> is there any way how to backup filesystem with ACL's and permissions >> directly from stdin to multiple DVDs? > > With a little work, yes. > > The only way to backup UFS filesystems with ACLs etc is dump. Make sure > that you have a filesystem with >4GB free space. Add a directory on this > fs, and set the nodump flag. > > Have a look at the 'dodumps' script on my FreeBSD page; > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#backups > > If you use dump like I do in dodumps, it splits the output in DVD-sized > chunks. After every chunk, it waits for you to type 'yes' to proceed. > > So what you can do is burn the first dumpfile to a DVD (don't bother > wrapping a cd9660 fs around it), delete it, and then continue with the dump. > > Alternatively, you could buy an external USB harddisk which will have > room to spare and save you dumps on that. :-) > > Roland Hi I just wanted to do backup of some machines (Linux & FreeBSD mixed env.). Every machine has DVD burner and directory that is bigger than media size (>4GB). I thought about some universal solution for both OSs. I found project called cdbackup, but it is only avaliable for Linux. Combined with star I think it should be enough for my needs.
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