> (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/29/review.dvd.recorders.ap/index.html)
> claims that (in the U.S.) DVD-Rs cost about $10, and rewritable ones
> about $5 more.  I haven't tried hard to verify either number, but a

so it's very expensive in poland only (about 2x)

15$/5GB disk will be cheap.

> 30-second search of one Web site found one brand of rewritable DVD at
> US$19.  Not cheap, compared to CD-R, but I can certainly afford a few
> for level 0 dumps.  And as you point out, most level 1 and higher dumps
> won't take up more than one CD-R.
>
> As for
>
> > you always can record through pipe.
> > i recorded >500 CD's through pipe on 6x speed CD-R on P-133 with 5400RPM
> > IDE drive, often while listening to mp3's, browsing www, reading
> > mail/news, sometimes compiling and NEVER had buffer underrun.
>
> Yes, I can write a script that uses pipes, and I probably will (I
> hadn't realized that piping dump | mkisofs | cdrecord would work).  But

no mkisofs!!!!!

manually:

mkfifo /tmp/cdrecord

dump ........parameters.... -B 666000 -f /tmp/cdrecord

on another console

cdrecord -v blank=fast speed=xxx /tmp/cdrecord

and when dump prompts for next media rerun cdrecord and then hit enter in
dump



> I'd prefer a solution that let me use dump/restore's volume-switching
> feature.
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> 		Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
>
>

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