Re: Cedar Backup v1.11 Released

[Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:19:03PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> >Cedar Backup v1.11 has been released.  This is a maintainence release,
> >focusing on one enhancement and a small amount of cleanup.  Daniel
> >Bonniot requested that I add support for ATA CD devices under Linux 2.6,
> >which I did right away because it ended up requiring only a few simple
> >changes.  
> 
> Kenneth, thanks for such a quick implementation and release! I just did a 
> test run of `cback --all --full` with the following settings in <store>:
> 
>    <target_device>/dev/hdc</target_device>
>    <target_scsi_id>ATA:1,0,0</target_scsi_id>
> 
> It worked without problem.

Great!

> Probably there will be some minor changes to be done in the documentation 
> to cover this situation.

Yes, I will have to make some updates, which I didn't do for this
release.

> By the way, is the target_device entry really needed? As far as I know, the 
> device numbers are sufficient for cdrecord to identify the device.

You're right - cdrecord doesn't need anything other than the device
numbers.  The <target_device> is used for pre-write checks (like making
sure the device isn't mounted before writing to it) and also for the
post-write consistency check, which mounts the disc and then compares
the data on the disc to the data in the staging directory.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>
Cedar Solutions Software 
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