dump archive of /home

[Thufir Hawat]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:32:38 -0500, scott wrote:
[...]
> Just a thought. Have you tried using /dev/sr0, or whatever your cdrom
> drive shows as, instead of /dev/cdrw?
> 
> Scott



same result :(


thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ wodim --devices
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (2 found) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0  dev='/dev/scd0'	rwrw-- : 'SAMSUNG' 'CD-ROM SC-148C'
 1  dev='/dev/scd1'	rwrw-- : 'CD-RW' 'CDR-6S52'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
	1,0,0	100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-ROM SC-148C  ' 'B100' Removable CD-ROM
	1,1,0	101) 'CD-RW   ' 'CDR-6S52        ' '6SR2' Removable CD-ROM
	1,2,0	102) *
	1,3,0	103) *
	1,4,0	104) *
	1,5,0	105) *
	1,6,0	106) *
	1,7,0	107) *
thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo dump -f /dev/sr1 /home
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Mar  9 20:05:02 2012
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/ (dir home)) to /dev/sr1
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 21288866 blocks.
  DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/sr1": Read-only file system
  DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") n
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo mondoarchive -Ow 2 1,1,0 -I ``/home/thufir/''
Initializing...
See /var/log/mondoarchive.log for details of backup run.
Checking sanity of your Linux distribution



-Thufir