Re: Unidentified subject!
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling:
> > growisofs uses mkisofs!
> > Mkisofs is definitely not designed to work on a dataset that changes while
> > mkisofs is running.
> > [...]
> > Growisofs cannot give
> > you more than cdrecord gives you with pipes.
>
> How about this gesture:
>
> star -c -xdev -acl -link-dirs level=0 -C / . \
> | gzip | growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0
>
> To be checkread by:
> gunzip </dev/dvd | star -t -v
>
> (If this shall produce a system recovery backup then it
> has to be done in single user mode resp. from a booted
> rescue system.)
Well the original claim was that cdrecord cannot work on data
that is piped into cdrecord from mkisofs. This claim is definitely
wrong.
> How would above gesture look with cdrecord for DVD media ?
> (No disk buffer, single pass, ready for making use of
> star's fault tolerance options ...)
Without filesystem snapshots even star cannot guarantee consistent
backups.
Adding packet writing modes for DVD media is on the TODO list but with
lower priority than other tasks.
Jörg
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