Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:07:22 +1030 From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Xian <ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Subject: Re: Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs Message-ID: <200501272107.29293.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au> References: <200501270100.56303.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> <200501272023.22673.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:23, Ian Moore wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:30, Xian wrote: > > I don't have any DVD-Rs of any format yet so I was messing about with > > CDs. I found I could burn files to the CD in a variety of ways but I > > can't get them back again. > > I've used dd and burncd to put the file onto a CD and dd sometimes gets > > something back too, but never works properly. > > Any ideas how to do this properly? > > I think this is what you are looking for (lists.freebsd.org seems to down > at the moment, so I can't confirm this is the thread I think it is): > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064560.h >tml Sorry, that's not the right link, try this instead: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup It's not the link I had originally, why didn't I bookmark it? :( Cheers, Ian > Anyway, to backup /usr directly to a dvd(+rw), I use the this command: > dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0 ' > /usr This gives you a dvd or series of dvds with the dump file on them. You > can then boot from CD2 (live system) and use restore to restore the data. > If the link above is the one I think it is, it gives you an example restore > command. > > Hope that's the kind of thing you are after. >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dump/main.c?rev=1.59&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBB+MRpfITqkXhImmIRAmGtAJia3N4c6YW8JVicXUtdL87UVVgMAJ9EFJau uk4Q//sv2kj1rzraLYzFig== =wxRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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