Backup to CD-Rs and DVDs

[Ian Moore]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:49, Xian wrote:
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:39, Xian wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:37, Ian Moore wrote:
> > > > 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&co
> > > >nt en t-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Cheers,
> >
> > That's exactly what I'm looking for thanks.
> > I tried it with a CD-RW like this
> >  dump -0 -L -C16 -B716800 -P 'burncd -e blank data - fixate' /var
> > and it works well. I'll try DVDs when I have some.
> >
> > THANKS :D

Glad I could help :-)
>
> I just found that I need to use the -b 2 switch with restore, does that
> mean I need to use it with dump as well?

I'm not sure, but if you are able to successfully retore dumps made without -b 
2, then I guess you don't need t!.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian Moore

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