From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 23 17:17:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4CF37B41B for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 15F715F13; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:17:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:17:16 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver To: Scott Long Cc: Mike Meyer , Doug Hardie , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backups to DVD-R Message-ID: <20020224021715.A94487@skriver.dk> References: <20020211180354.A20800@zeebar.com> <20020211234259.G24535@blossom.cjclark.org> <15480.9909.282805.339521@guru.mired.org> <20020224001647.GA23083@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020224001647.GA23083@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>; from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:16:47PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B88 9CE8 66E9 E631 C9C5 5EB4 22AB F0EC F956 1C31 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://freesbee.wheel.dk/~jesper/gpgkey.pub 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 05:16:47PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > 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. Could you be a bit more specific, I have a acd1: CD-RW at ata1-slave using PIO4 Which works fine a a CD-R writer, but I have so far been unable to write any DVD-R's. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message