Dump to DVD

[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 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 this is a bit new to  me.
> >
> > What command are you using? tar? dump? .....
> 
> Dump.... dump -0au -L -f /dev/acd0 /usr
> 
> It used to just prompt me to feed in another DVD. Now it errors out when the 
> DVD is full.
> 

Hmm, the man page says that the -a option (which you are using), should
do just that.. odd. Have you played with teh -s option?


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