From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 21:26:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819E837B402 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:26:05 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Mike Meyer" Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:25:44 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <00f700526051012FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> 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 On Tuesday 15 January 2002 01:22 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Brian T. Schellenberger types: > > On Monday 14 January 2002 01:31 pm, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > Or maybe he meant to avoid saving the archive to hard disk by piping > > > it to the CD burning program. I don't know if even the fastest system > > > could do that, but it's easy enough to test and should be safe enough > > > since the burning program will tell you if you don't feed it data fast > > > enough. > > > > I did this all the time under Linux; even with a P-450 it worked just > > fine as long as the system wasn't overtaxed (as in, load < 2), using the > > stdin feature of cdrecord. I tried with burncd under FreeBSD and had no > > success, though. Of course, cdrecord doesn't support stdin input so I Drat. I meant "Of course, burncd doesn't support stdin . . . ." > > had to set up a named pipe but I don't know why that would be a problem > > in and of itself. > > cdrecord supports stdin - just use the file name "-". I pipe the > output from mkisofs to cdrecord on a regular basis, and in general it > works fairly well so long as I'm not loading the system to heavily (as > in, load < 5). The slowest system I've had a CDRW on had dual Xeon > 400s, though. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message