From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 19:19:22 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 A3B9616A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:19:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EE143D5D for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:19:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CuFSk-000CUG-JO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:37:54 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:19:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501272107.29293.imoore@picknowl.com.au> <200501271239.52170.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501271239.52170.ian@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501271919.21675.ian@codepad.net> 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 19:19:22 -0000 On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:39, Xian wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:37, Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&cont > > >en t-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Cheers, > > That's exactly what I'm looking for thanks. > I tried it with a CD-RW like this > dump -0 -L -C16 -B716800 -P 'burncd -e blank data - fixate' /var > and it works well. I'll try DVDs when I have some. > > THANKS :D I just found that I need to use the -b 2 switch with restore, does that mean I need to use it with dump as well? -- /Xian "Forbidden fruit creates many jams" Unknown Author