From: Iain Barker (ibarker@aastra.com)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 16:26:57 EDT
Received replies from Dr Tom Blinn and Tim Cutts
Tru64 doesn't have any support for packet mode (UDF) writing on CDRW drives. The cdrecord command does permit multi-session recording, but with an overhead of ~30MB per each additional session.
I decided the easier method was to use vdump/vrestore for incremental backups, and create a wrapper for so that the saveset can be broken into chunks of <=650MB. Each chunk can then be written to a standard CDRW via mkisofs/cdrecord.
This also allows full backups to span more than one CDRW disk, which is good enough for our needs.
-----Original Message-----
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to use CDRW on AlphaServer for
> incremental backups?
>
> DS15 has a DVD/CDRW drive. I can create full ISO images using mkisofs
> & cdrecord, but I was wondering if there is any packet writing
> software for Tru64, so it can be used more like a tape device,
> appended to an existing tar data set etc.
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