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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:17:59 +0000, Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> 2.) As it stands, it's going to take 862 slices to backup this data |
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>> without compression? I asked for slices of 690M, why is it only |
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>> showing as 106M for this particular slice? |
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> Not sure, am guessing it's not going through the directory tree. |
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>> 3.) Do I just burn thufir.1.dar to disc (CD-R) as a regular data disc |
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>> using, for example, the builti-in nautilus burner? |
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> I would suggest writing the *.dar files to disc (CD-R) in the same way |
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> as how you'd write normal datafiles. |
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> Eg. do NOT treat the *.dar files as ISO-images. Strange things can |
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> happen this way. |
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>> 4.) How do I get DAR to generate the second slice? |
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> Not entirely sure, but the following command works for me: |
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> dar -m 256 -y -s 690M -D -R /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/thufir/ -c |
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> thufir -Z "*.zip" -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.mp3" -Z "*.jpg" |
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> You would probably want to add "--beep --pause" to it. The "-Z" options |
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> are there to tell dar not to bother trying to compress already |
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> compressed files. (makes it faster) |
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Thank you for the information, I'll post my results :) |
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-Thufir |
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