From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 11:05:59 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 0270916A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:05:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7038843D2F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:05:58 +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 3AC06976F0; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:35:57 +1030 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:35:43 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501271239.52170.ian@codepad.net> <200501271919.21675.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501271919.21675.ian@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2013412.XznMxk7WFl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501282135.56103.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: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:05:59 -0000 --nextPart2013412.XznMxk7WFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:49, Xian wrote: > 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=3D1.5= 9&co > > > >nt en t-type=3Dtext/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 Glad I could help :-) > > 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? I'm not sure, but if you are able to successfully retore dumps made without= -b=20 2, then I guess you don't need t!. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart2013412.XznMxk7WFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB+hyUfITqkXhImmIRAopKAJ9GrK9DaulZJQSqjosMJyTh0yrLDQCeOjBe yFvWz57KielSt0wWOBgAXBI= =9BOx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2013412.XznMxk7WFl--