On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:15, Laurence Darby wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I use amanda to create backups that are split to fit on a dvd, but so > > far I have not been able to create the dvd using k3b. It may be a > > permissions problem, or it may be a k3b problem. I have tried to > > make the backup by running k3b as amanda, and also by running k3b as > > root. > > When I burned my (semi-complete) backups to dvd, I used growisofs from > dvd+rw-tools, with the 'slot.x' vtape directory in an ext2 filesystem > in a file dvd.ext2, and burned it as root with > > # growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.ext2 > > I wrote a script to erase and refill the dvd.ext2 file after each > burn, I'm not sure if it counts as a "tape changer" script. I could > post it if it might be useful. > > If you can tolerate ISO9660, then using the slot directory directly > should work: > > # growisofs -speed=8 -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /backups/full/slot1 > What I had done was mkisofs -o /Backup/mybackup.iso -R -J -l -v /Backup/amandatapes/Dailys/slot9
then cdrecord -v -sao dev=cdrom -data /Backup/mybackup.iso Towards the end of the output was a warning message, but then it seems to say that it completed satisfactorily. ..... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 1714 of 1714 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 97%] 8.5x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 1797552128/1797552128 (877711 sectors). Writing time: 211.567s Average write speed 6.9x. Min drive buffer fill was 36% Fixating... Fixating time: 0.134s cdrecord: fifo had 28314 puts and 28314 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 7246 times full, min fill was 67%. I'm a bit suspicious of the write speed. Whenever I have burned DVDs on the same-model drive on this box I have always used 2x. I'm surprised that this drive can do a DVD at 6.9x. Perhaps the command should have a speed limiter inserted. > The problems you've got look like general KDE problems, not sure how to > help with them sorry. > It's the all-too-common puzzle of two installations, nominally doing the same thing, but finding that one is fine and the other isn't. A real frustration. One thing I haven't tried, and will do today. I will copy the .iso file onto this box and try k3b's 'burn a dvd iso image'. I have used it several times, so I know that there isn't a problem with the software on this box. I'll report back. Anne
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