Subject: Re: dumping through fifo
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Ben Collver <collver1@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/20/2003 21:05:38
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>tried to do backup to CD-RW
>
>mkfifo /tmp/backup
>/sbin/dump -0 -u -h 0 -B 666000 -L "wojtek" -f /tmp/backup /
>
>on one console
>
>cdrecord -v -dao tsize=666000k /tmp/backup
>
>recorded one disk, then dump said "Closing /tmp/backup" and waits forever
>
>fstat /tmp/backup shows it's not open.
>
>what i missed?
>
>
I tried and kept notes, but did not get it working. The notes might be
interesting:
http://backyard.homeunix.net/~ben/docs/comp/unix/netbsd/cdrw-backup-idea
Ben