Re: DVD-RW backup

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

> My buddy and I are trying to set up a nightly backup for our server. His
> server has a DVD-RW in it, so we are trying to backup to the DVD-RW. We are
> currently stuck on the DVD backup, whenever we run the backup job, it is
> only using the amount of space a CDRW can use. Is there a way to modify this
> size parameter so that we can utilize the significan size increase of backup
> disk?

I'm actually surprised that this worked at all for you.  Cedar Backup
uses the cdrecord utility to write to disc.  The cdrecord utility can
write to CD media in a combo DVD/CD drive, but it isn't supposed to
support writing to DVD media at all.  I don't know for sure, but I
suspect what's happening is that cdrecord thinks it's writing a CD onto
your DVD media.

So, the simple answer is, no, I don't think that there's a way to write
full-sized DVDs instead of CDs, without creating a new DVDWriter class
in terms of some utility other than cdrecord.  This shouldn't be that
difficult, but I just haven't had time to look at it yet (I only
recently acquired decent DVD hardware)

Sorry...

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@ieee.org>
http://www.cedar-solutions.com/


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