On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:17:59 +0000, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> 2.) As it stands, it's going to take 862 slices to backup this data >> without compression? I asked for slices of 690M, why is it only >> showing as 106M for this particular slice? > > Not sure, am guessing it's not going through the directory tree. > >> 3.) Do I just burn thufir.1.dar to disc (CD-R) as a regular data disc >> using, for example, the builti-in nautilus burner? > > I would suggest writing the *.dar files to disc (CD-R) in the same way > as how you'd write normal datafiles. > Eg. do NOT treat the *.dar files as ISO-images. Strange things can > happen this way. > >> 4.) How do I get DAR to generate the second slice? > > Not entirely sure, but the following command works for me: > > dar -m 256 -y -s 690M -D -R /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/thufir/ -c > thufir -Z "*.zip" -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.mp3" -Z "*.jpg" > > You would probably want to add "--beep --pause" to it. The "-Z" options > are there to tell dar not to bother trying to compress already > compressed files. (makes it faster)
Thank you for the information, I'll post my results :) -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
