Re: DVD-R as backup medium: growisofs + udftools
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> But I need to store intermediate archives on some filesystem, which I
>> was trying to avoid.
>
> If you can talk your backup system into starting
> a pipe of afio | cdrskin -multi then this should be
> achievable.
No way :-(
> cdrskin is my offer of a burn backend. You need
Having a look...
> me:
>>> I prefer to format them to overwriteable state:
>>> dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0
>>> This avoids the need for lengthy full blanking before
>>> re-use.
> Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli:
>> Good to know!
>
> I have to point out that formatted DVD-RW are not
> capable of multi-session.
Ok.
> If the image format is always ISO-9660 then one
> can emulate multi-session because the image size
> is stored at a well defined position.
> But with afio or star archives it is not easily
> possible to determine the size of the valid payload.
> (It is not impossible if one is willing to read the
> whole payload plus some trailing garbage.)
>
> So DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and formatted DVD-RW are not
> suitable for my proposal in the previous mail.
I see this is a simple world :-)
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