From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 7:11: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lila.inti.gov.ar (lila.inti.gov.ar [200.10.161.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AC437B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 07:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nav.inti.gov.ar ([200.10.161.45]) by lila.inti.gov.ar with smtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 15eONG-0001HA-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:08:50 -0300 Received: from iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar ([200.3.113.15]) by NAV.inti.gov.ar (NAVGW 2.5.1.12) with SMTP id M2001090419130616348 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 19:13:06 -0300 Received: (from fernan@localhost) by iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f84M8kD06107 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:08:46 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fernan) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:08:46 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: dump on CD (linux only?) Message-ID: <20010904190846.D3750@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-PGP-Key: http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +-----[ Quoting from the cdwrite mailing list: | | I just want to tell you that the most recent version of | dump/restore (version 0.4b23) plus a tiny patch (see below) | enables you to pipe the output of dump directly into | cdrecord. This includes compression and splitting into | chunks which fit onto a CD. The compression is quite effective, | my 5.8 Gb root fs fits onto 2 CDs (0.65 Gb each) and | my /usr/local fs (over 9Gb) fits onto 7 CDs (0.7 Gb each). | | For my 900 MHz Pentium III compression (flag -z6) is fast | enough for my CD burner (4x). I suppose it could deliver | data even fast enough for an (8x) burner. | You save time and money (less CDs) | Furthermore it supports incremental dumps. | | Lateron, restore can directly read the (e.g.) /dev/cdrom | device. It's very comfortable; in its interactive mode | you can select simple files, directory-trees or the | full filesystem for recovery. | For those who don't have a streamer that's a appealing | solution. | | WARNING: You DO NEED the patched version of restore on | your favourite rescue disk to restore things if your filesystem | containing restore has broken down. | +-----] See ftp://ftp.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/pub/jarausch/Dump_On_CD/Dump_on_CD.readme and ftp://ftp.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/pub/jarausch/Dump_On_CD/dump-04b23CD.diff The dump that is being talk about is the one hosted at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dump/ Project: Dump/Restore ext2fs backup utilities OS: Linux Apparently the modifications to dump include a new switch to let restore work with multi-volume (non-tape) media. Is this something that can be easily propagated to FreeBSD dump? I'm relatively new to programming and definitely not versed at all on C/C++ so I'm not for the task :( Comments? Fernan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message