Topic: Backup to dvd fails. Pls help.

[msm3333]

Hi all.

I just installed a dvd writer (NEC ND 1300A, FW 1.0B).
I am using TDK DVD-RW 4,7GB

Starting Backup run without problems. It also writes the backupfile (tar.gz) in a temp folder (size about 3GB)

But when it should start burning:

Feb 18 15:21:53 scserver e-smith[3101]: Processing event: cdutils-backup
Feb 18 15:21:53 scserver e-smith[3101]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/cdutils-backup/S10cdutils-backup
Feb 18 15:21:57 scserver e-smith[3115]: Processing event: pre-cd-backup
Feb 18 15:21:57 scserver e-smith[3115]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-cd-backup/S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables
Feb 18 15:21:57 scserver e-smith[3115]: S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables=action|Event|pre-cd-backup|Action|S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables|Start|1108736517 134041|End|1108736517 303689|Elapsed|0.169648
Feb 18 15:21:57 scserver e-smith[3115]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-cd-backup/S20mysql-dump-tables
Feb 18 15:21:59 scserver e-smith[3115]: S20mysql-dump-tables=action|Event|pre-cd-backup|Action|S20mysql-dump-tables|Start|1108736517 304058|End|1108736519 75946|Elapsed|1.771888
Feb 18 15:21:59 scserver e-smith[3115]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-cd-backup/S25gentle-ldap-dump
Feb 18 15:21:59 scserver e-smith[3115]: S25gentle-ldap-dump=action|Event|pre-cd-backup|Action|S25gentle-ldap-dump|Start|1108736519 76305|End|1108736519 986323|Elapsed|0.910018
Feb 18 15:45:50 scserver e-smith[3101]: WARNING: Cannot determine media capacity - assuming it is DVD(4.38G)..../usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File /home/e-smith/files/ibays/scbackup/files/Data-05_02_18.tar.gz is too large - ignoring
Feb 18 15:45:51 scserver e-smith[3101]: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File /home/e-smith/files/ibays/scbackup/files/Data-05_02_18.tar.gz is too large - ignoring
Feb 18 15:45:51 scserver e-smith[3101]: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Broken pipe. cannot fwrite 2048*1
Feb 18 15:45:51 scserver e-smith[3101]: scsidev: '0,0,0'
Feb 18 15:45:51 scserver e-smith[3101]: scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Feb 18 15:45:51 scserver e-smith[3101]: Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Feb 18 15:45:53 scserver e-smith[3101]: ERROR: error occurred while burning CD at /opt/cd_utils/cd_backup.pl line 188.
Feb 18 15:45:53 scserver e-smith[3101]: Error occurred during backup - see /var/log/messages and /tmp/*.err files
Feb 18 15:45:54 scserver e-smith[3101]: ErrorMessage: Error occurred during backup - see /var/log/messages and /tmp/*.err files
Feb 18 15:45:54 scserver e-smith[3101]: S10cdutils-backup=action|Event|cdutils-backup|Action|S10cdutils-backup|Start|1108736513 564034|End|1108737954 26997|Elapsed|1440.462963|Status|2304

Would be great to receive some suggestions.

THX

[raem]

Which backup contrib did you install (name & version) ?

Does this post give any clues (re DVD file sizes) ?

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24909.0

[msm3333]

Hi!

thanks for the answer.

I can burn with dvdrecord directly without errors. But I have no clue how to read it. And Win does not like this DVD. I could not mount it in SME either.

Well here are the versions in use:
cd-utils-0.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
e-smith-cd-utils-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm
dvdrtools v0.1.3
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
mkisofs 1.14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Would be great to receive some help.

Thanks.

[askelon]

I have the same problem with with an ASUS 8x DVD+/-RW.. It'll burn CD's no probs but wont do DVD's no matter what..