From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 10:28:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B6A37B400 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:28:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E706FBC8C; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22717; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:28:25 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0EIVBm04619; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? References: <15426.33499.296182.78699@guru.mired.org> <0ecd43711140e12FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> <02aad1513140e12FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> <15426.63500.847866.284422@guru.mired.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Jan 2002 10:31:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <15426.63500.847866.284422@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Mike Meyer" writes: > I wouldn't recommend writing anything directly to the CD. That thought > just bothers me. Maybe if I could get dump to write CD-size chunks > direct to cdrecord and prompt for the next one, but even then... I wander if he just meant to avoid the mkisofs step. Is it ever possible to write directly to the CD (successfully)? I doubt it. Or maybe he meant to avoid saving the archive to hard disk by piping it to the CD burning program. I don't know if even the fastest system could do that, but it's easy enough to test and should be safe enough since the burning program will tell you if you don't feed it data fast enough. A NOTE ON "dump" USAGE: I see a problem with using dump in that the man page says it doesn't dump files and directories with the "nodump" file flag set. That seems to mean that to do a backup with confidence, one would need to run "chflags" on everything one intends to dump. Not a big problem if one remembers to do it; it just lengthens the process. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message