Topic: DVD writer in system ?

[verhoem]

Hi,

can anyone give me some information (links / docs / hints) on how install a dvd writer in my SME 6.0 system.

Thanks in advance,

Marcel
 

[Anonymous]

Putting a DVD writer in the server is the easy part. I have put three different ones in an they have all worked fine. The hard part is using is to do backups, which must must be the only reason to put on in the system.
See this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19413.0

I started this one months ago, and still have no answer that actually works. You can use tar, gzip, mkisofs, and cdrecord to burn a backup image of specified directories to a disk, but if the the tar file is over 2 gigs, then I have yet to figure it out. There was an offer from someone in that thread to write a how-to, but nothing ever came of it. I am still pretty desperate to find a real solution.

[verhoem]

Would it be handy to split the tar files into chunk smaller then 2 Gb ?

tar -cvM -L 1400 -f file1.tar -f file2.tar -f file3.tar /dir2tar

1400 = (1400 * 1024 Bytes) thus for 2Gb you should transform it.

hope it helps you  

[Anonymous]

that does work to split the tar file. However, mkisofs also fails once the image exceeds 2 gigs. So you still hit this limit when you want to do larger backups to blank DVD's

[verhoem]

sorry it didn't work completely, for me it does the job because I only want to backup userdata.
Good luck !

[Jáder]

Have you tested cd-util from sourceforge ?

http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net

See this: http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/e-smith-info.html

Be aware... there is a small change from 5.12 to 5.6/6.0 on prebackup part (changed the SME command for backup mysql databases) and author do not updated his package.

If you like I can send you my changed file!
(I´ll try to report to author this glitch!)

[verhoem]

Thanks !!
I 'am currently getting acquinted with the SME server, hope to be able to make rpms in the future.
I the meanwhile I would appreciate if you send me you're changes.