From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 10:37:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BF916A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:37:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1705943D41 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:37:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon.foo.lan (adsl-176-70.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.176.70]) by jupiter.picknowl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3486C9705A; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:07:30 +1030 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:07:22 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1384364.2AoGOYJSSq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501272107.29293.imoore@picknowl.com.au> cc: Xian Subject: Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:37:31 -0000 --nextPart1384364.2AoGOYJSSq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:23, Ian Moore wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:30, Xian wrote: > > I don't have any DVD-Rs of any format yet so I was messing about with > > CDs. I found I could burn files to the CD in a variety of ways but I > > can't get them back again. > > I've used dd and burncd to put the file onto a CD and dd sometimes gets > > something back too, but never works properly. > > Any ideas how to do this properly? > > I think this is what you are looking for (lists.freebsd.org seems to down > at the moment, so I can't confirm this is the thread I think it is): > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064560= =2Eh >tml Sorry, that's not the right link, try this instead: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=3D1.59&conte= nt-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup It's not the link I had originally, why didn't I bookmark it? :( Cheers, Ian > Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: > dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=3D4 -Z /dev/dvd=3D/dev/fd= /0 ' > /usr This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on them. Y= ou > can then boot from CD2 (live system) and use restore to restore the data. > If the link above is the one I think it is, it gives you an example resto= re > command. > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=3D1.59&cont= ent-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup > Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1384364.2AoGOYJSSq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBB+MRpfITqkXhImmIRAmGtAJia3N4c6YW8JVicXUtdL87UVVgMAJ9EFJau uk4Q//sv2kj1rzraLYzFig== =wxRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1384364.2AoGOYJSSq--