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Date:      Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:50:09 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        stan <stanb@panix.com>
Subject:   Re: Dump to DVD (partially solved)
Message-ID:  <200609040050.25450.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060904020958.GA9563@teddy.fas.com>
References:  <200609031510.58852.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <200609031718.23259.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060904020958.GA9563@teddy.fas.com>

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On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:09, stan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > > > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to
> > > > multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out
> > > > of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to
> > > > add file size to the command, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I
> > > > don't normally use DVD's so this is a bit new to  me.
> > >
> > > What command are you using? tar? dump? .....
> >
> > Dump.... dump -0au -L -f /dev/acd0 /usr
> >
> > It used to just prompt me to feed in another DVD. Now it errors out when
> > the DVD is full.
>
> Hmm, the man page says that the -a option (which you are using), should
> do just that.. odd. Have you played with teh -s option?

No, but specifying -B4589840 in the line works. I have no Idea why it won't=
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autodetect. Anyway, thanks for the help. This is a client's machine running=
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6-STABLE, and I was hoping it wouldn't turn into a retirement project this=
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weekend, which it didn't. If anyone wants to track this down, I'm in=20
(relatively) close proximity to the box, and I'll be more than happy to do=
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some further testing later in the week.

Beech

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