Re: Dump to DVD (partially solved)

2006-09-04 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:09, stan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Well I know this is a bit OT, but amanda can do spit 'dump's over multilple tapes/dvds/whatever. That way you also have an index of what's on what media etc. -- Martin On 9/4/06, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to mu

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple > > > DVD's and keep getting a write error

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple > > DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I > > need an example of the proper co

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread stan
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's > and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an > example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the > comm

Dump to DVD

2006-09-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to multiple DVD's and keep getting a write error when the DVD runs out of space. I need an example of the proper command. I think I need to add file size to the command, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I don't normally use DVD's so

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread David Scheidt
dump file to the DVD. No problems mounting and reading the > > resulting dump file. Unfortunately, I do not have enough free disk > > space to do this with my larger file systems. > > > > This is with 5.3-RELEASE. > > Try: > > dump -0au -L -f /dev/cd0 / >

Re: Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:00, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am > using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: > > dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 / > > to backup the root filesystem. I do this afte

Dump to DVD problem.

2006-03-25 Thread Scott Ballantyne
I am trying to use dump/restore to backup my filesystems to DVD. I am using a DVD+RW, format it with dvd+rw-format -force /dev/cd0, and then do: dump -0 -b 32 -B 4590208 -f /dev/cd0 / to backup the root filesystem. I do this after going to single user mode. It seems that dump is perhaps not pro