Re: Overburned DVD data recovery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cron job that backs up a FreeBSD server's files to DVD+RW media each evening using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools port. There are some files that I need to recover, but the problem is, the last 2 weeks of backups were a few hundred megabytes too large, and overburned. AFAIK you can't overburn DVDs. Is there any way to recover data from these overburned DVDs? I tried mounting them from FreeBSD, Windows and Mac systems without success. I also tried running cat /dev/acd0 | gzip data.iso.gz in an attempt to grab the raw bits of the disk, but that only resulted in an input/output error. You could try readcd and isoinfo (/usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools-devel) but those few hundred megabytes at the end will still be lost. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ pgpiY6QfD2GpX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Overburned DVD data recovery
On 10/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a cron job that backs up a FreeBSD server's files to DVD+RW media each evening using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools port. There are some files that I need to recover, but the problem is, the last 2 weeks of backups were a few hundred megabytes too large, and overburned. Is there any way to recover data from these overburned DVDs? I tried mounting them from FreeBSD, Windows and Mac systems without success. I also tried running cat /dev/acd0 | gzip data.iso.gz in an attempt to grab the raw bits of the disk, but that only resulted in an input/output error. Restoring a 2-week-old backup is an option, but any ideas on how I might read data off of these overburned disks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd start with trying to dd the DVD to an ordinary file (dd if=/dev/dvd-device of=/usr/recov.iso bs=2048) and then trying to mount that file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Overburned DVD data recovery
Hi, I have a cron job that backs up a FreeBSD server's files to DVD+RW media each evening using growisofs from the dvd+rw-tools port. There are some files that I need to recover, but the problem is, the last 2 weeks of backups were a few hundred megabytes too large, and overburned. Is there any way to recover data from these overburned DVDs? I tried mounting them from FreeBSD, Windows and Mac systems without success. I also tried running cat /dev/acd0 | gzip data.iso.gz in an attempt to grab the raw bits of the disk, but that only resulted in an input/output error. Restoring a 2-week-old backup is an option, but any ideas on how I might read data off of these overburned disks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
