Problems making CD backups
Carl Delsey
cdelsey at qwest.net
Tue Sep 13 22:10:03 PDT 2005
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:19:09PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use a cron script with mkisofs and burncd every weekend. But
> > after taking a long time to do nothing, burncd never returns from burning and
> > fixating the CD, and looking at the CD itself shows no recorded area
> > reflecting. Trying to mount the CD gives a 'device busy' error.
> >
> > Is my CD-R just being difficult? Or could I be doing something wrong? Where
> > should I start looking? Or could I be doing something wrong? Where should I
> > start looking?
>
> Try if cdrecord works better.
You might also try a different brand or batch of CD's. I saw
strange errors like that when I had a batch of bad CD's.
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