On Thursday 24 June 2004 03:36, Christoph Scheeder wrote:
>Hi,
>i'm using a dvd+-rw device for archiving my vdr-recordings.
>you don't need to by cdrecord-DVDpro, there is a tool called
>growisofs out there.
>It handles dvd+ and dvd- correct, it is free, and AFAIK
>it handles the various versions of buffer-underrunprotection
>automagically.
>Christoph
That I've got, version 5.19-1. It doesn't display the buffer status
while k3b is burning with though, which is what made me a bit
nervous. However, so far, mounting the burnt disk seems to show each
of the files from a given /dumps/$DATE directory just fine. I need
to figure out howto turn on the verify for it though.
>Gene Heskett schrieb:
>> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 14:30, Frank Smith wrote:
>>>--On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 13:56:27 -0400 Gene Heskett
>>
>> <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>>>>Greetings all;
>>>>
>>>>I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off.
>>>>I hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was
>>>> full when I got X running again, which had died due to my
>>>> changing the default prompt in bash, which in turn screwed up
>>>> the X startup, it would get to the mouse intialization, report
>>>> success in the log, but hang at that point with no further disk
>>>> activity.
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, on arrival here, it appears my 2nd tape drive in as many
>>>>months is in the process of dying.
>>>>
>>>>I recently bought a DVD+-RW, drive and a 25 pack of +- media.
>>>>
>>>>While its burnt several cdr's just fine, the media I have appear
>>>>to not be compatible with cdrecord unless I buy the
>>>>cdrecord-DVDPro version from Jeorg. I probably can, the $ is not
>>>>a huge problem.
>>>>
>>>>What I'd like from this group is some pointers on setting up the
>>>>use of this dvd drive as a 4.7GB tape equivalent. I'd be glad to
>>>>be somebodies "guinea pig" :-)
>>>
>>>Be sure to verify what you burn. My experience in burning data
>>> DVDs is limited to a set of 26 DVDs I made to move 120+GB of data
>>> between locations (a high latency high bandwith data transfer).
>>> Of the 26 discs, 22 were read just fine, the other 4 had read
>>> errors on parts of the discs. If I skipped over the file(s)
>>> involved I could read the remainder of the disc, but each one of
>>> those bad discs had 10s of MBs of unrecoverable data,
>>> Fortunately I was able to rsync from the original server to
>>> complete the data transfer, but that wouldn't have been possible
>>> if I had needed to do a recover from those DVDs. I don't know if
>>> it was bad media or a buffer underrun while burning, but the
>>> original burns completed without any indication of problems
>>> (xcdroast with cdrecord). YMMV, but I would be sure to do
>>> extensive testing before relying on it for backups. With video,
>>> minor data loss just results in barely noticable dropped frames
>>> or nois, but with data it can be catastophic. I would suggest
>>> running amverify on every run, at least until you build some
>>> confidence in your burning.
>>>
>>>My $.02,
>>>Frank
>>
>> Thanks Frank. I've now made 2 dvd's from unwritten dirs in the
>> /dumps assign, using a recent k3b (11-11), but I've not figured
>> out how to turn on the burnproof yet, and the burn screen isn't
>> showing me buffer status, like there isn't any, and the drive
>> claims to have a 2Mb buffer.
>>
>>>>--
>>>>Cheers, Gene
>>>>There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap,
>>>> ballot, jury, and ammo.
>>>> Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author
>>>>Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright
>>>> 2004, Maurice E. Heskett,
>>>>all rights
>>>>reserved.
--
Cheers, Gene
There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot,
jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004,
Maurice E. Heskett,
all rights
reserved.
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