From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 7 17:24:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4BE37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.96.179.229] (helo=escape.shannon.net) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 15fVvK-0009dj-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:24:39 -0400 Received: from daydream (daydream.shannon.net [192.168.1.10]) by escape.shannon.net (8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id f880NPw00173 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shannon by daydream with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15fVu9-0001Ub-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:23:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:23:25 -0400 From: Charles Shannon Hendrix To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: dump on CD (linux only?) Message-ID: <20010907202323.C4908@widomaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20010904190846.D3750@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010904190846.D3750@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i 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 Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:08:46PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote: > 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? Somewhat related, is anyone doing anything with packet-writing for FreeBSD? I always assumed that it would allow the use of CD like a tape. Would be nice anyway. You can already do this if you really want to by telling dump to use files and making them all 650MB (or whatever your CD-ROMs are), and then burning those to CD. No compression, but it's worked for me. -- "Star Wars Moral Number 17: Teddy bears are dangerous in herds." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message