From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 23 16:19:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F86337B405 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29276; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [162.62.64.10]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14034; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:02:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (hollin [162.62.149.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02660; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:19:28 -0700 (MST) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g1O0Glr23093; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:16:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:16:47 -0700 From: Scott Long To: Mike Meyer Cc: Doug Hardie , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backups to DVD-R Message-ID: <20020224001647.GA23083@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: <20020211180354.A20800@zeebar.com> <20020211234259.G24535@blossom.cjclark.org> <15480.9909.282805.339521@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15480.9909.282805.339521@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:33:09PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Doug Hardie 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message