From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 01:54:43 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 598B716A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:54:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2547D43D1F for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:54:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keebler@mindspring.com) Received: from user-11fapgc.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.245.102.12] helo=[192.168.1.100]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Cuhos-00089G-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:54:38 -0500 Message-ID: <41FAEC16.9000708@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:51:18 -0500 From: Carleton Vaughn User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Moore References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Xian cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:54:43 -0000 Ian Moore wrote: > Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: > dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 ' /usr > This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on them. You 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 restore command. I'm in the same boat as Xian. I want to backup to DVD so I can upgrade to 5.3. dump in 4.10 does not have a -P option, and growisofs says nothing about handling spanning, so how do I span my dump over multiple DVDs? dump -h0 -B 4589840 -S /usr says I'm going to need 6.18 "tapes". I'm going to crack open a beer and just pipe it, to see what happens. Then some day if all goes well I will split /usr into /usr and /usr/home, 'cause this is ridiculous. Thanks. -- Carleton Vaughn College Park, Georgia, USA