From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrpkQ-0004F9-Qe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:59:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAD6vQBu005934; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:57:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAD6qj2t000327 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:46 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F4065387 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mzeHu4mtY0bv for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF17644E6 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IrpdG-0007g2-6c for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:22 +0000 Received: from s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net ([24.87.46.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:22 +0000 Received: from hawat.thufir by s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:22 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thufir Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk ARchiver command line questions Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <36796.10.1.4.14.1194016679.squirrel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 58e51929-09c2-49db-8a18-85e416bf4ee6 X-Archives-Hash: fb4fd1de028c605f87b74e33c903db65 On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:17:59 +0000, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> 2.) As it stands, it's going to take 862 slices to backup this data >> without compression? I asked for slices of 690M, why is it only >> showing as 106M for this particular slice? > > Not sure, am guessing it's not going through the directory tree. > >> 3.) Do I just burn thufir.1.dar to disc (CD-R) as a regular data disc >> using, for example, the builti-in nautilus burner? > > I would suggest writing the *.dar files to disc (CD-R) in the same way > as how you'd write normal datafiles. > Eg. do NOT treat the *.dar files as ISO-images. Strange things can > happen this way. > >> 4.) How do I get DAR to generate the second slice? > > Not entirely sure, but the following command works for me: > > dar -m 256 -y -s 690M -D -R /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/thufir/ -c > thufir -Z "*.zip" -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.mp3" -Z "*.jpg" > > You would probably want to add "--beep --pause" to it. The "-Z" options > are there to tell dar not to bother trying to compress already > compressed files. (makes it faster) Thank you for the information, I'll post my results :) -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list