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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:16:47 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1014939189.26242a@mired.org>
Cc:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backups to DVD-R
Message-ID:  <20020224001647.GA23083@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <15480.9909.282805.339521@guru.mired.org>
References:  <20020211180354.A20800@zeebar.com> <20020211234259.G24535@blossom.cjclark.org> <f04330139b89dd43d86dd@[192.168.1.21]> <15480.9909.282805.339521@guru.mired.org>

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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:33:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> types:
> > I have been digging around and haven't found any specific information 
> > on whether or not its possible yet to do backups to a DVD-R and what 
> > would be required.  My systems are running 4.3 and do not have 
> > firewire interfaces.
> 
> Did you try digging for info about backups to CD-R? It's been covered
> a number of times on -questions. I think that a lot of that will
> apply, except that you've got bigger devices to back up to.

To be more precise, you may burn an iso9660 filesystem to a DVD-R, just
like a CD-R.  Look at mkisofs in ports for more info.  In the future
you will be able to put a UDF filesystem on both DVD-R and CD-RW,
allowing you to treat it just like a huge floppy.  That is a few months 
off, though.

Scott

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