Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

[Ian Moore]

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

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