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
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