Topic: Anyone able to make CDRW backups?

[cydonia]

Hi,

I cannot get my IDE CDRW drive to work with SME.  I have followed the how to at:

http://gateway.interworx.com.au/smepublic/howto/5.6/cdrecord/CDWriter-howto.htm


But it will not work, i get the following output:

[root@centralserver cdrom]# cdrecord /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/­
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'asus'
devname: 'asus'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
[root@centralserver cdrom]#
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[root@centralserver cdrom]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ASUS ' 'CRW-5224A ' '1.35' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
[root@centralserver cdrom]#
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Someone recommended i try overriding the devive using:

# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc /home/stuff

that just came up with:

[root@centralserver lilo.conf]# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc /home/e-smith/files/ibays/

Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

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Any ideas?  I'm testing this before i buy a DVD burner to use in my SME for offsite backup storage.  Hopefully DVD is easier, but i would like to get this working now just because its annoying me:).

[Brave Dave]

the command you want is;
cdrecord -dev=0,0 image.iso

where image.iso is an iso created with mkisofs

[cydonia]

Thanks David, that did the trick .

Now i gotta learn how to use mkisofs to create a backup of certain areas of my server.  

cheers.

[Jáder]

Please take a look at cd-util (http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/).
Very nice and have a e-smith interface!

Great tool!

Jáder

[cydonia]

Thanks jader.  A nice addition to the SME server panel indeed!:D.

Now if only you could use it for DVDRW also...

[Jáder]

I have an ALPHA version, sent to me directly by Haydn Lowe that can do that... I'lll look for it and sent directly to you be e-mail. Please wait a few hours!

[haydnlowe]

check out http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net

New version for SME 6 is available - also supports DVD burning, with a module for server manager...