Topic: ISO with CDRW and DVD burning backups built-in

[sahosting]

Hi,

Does anyone out there have an ISO with the CDRW and DVD graphical backup utilities availble for download.  I'm fairly new to Linux and although my server is working perfect... I'd like to add the CD and DVD backup option.

I've read the how to and it's a little past my abilities.

thanks,
curtis =)

[sahosting]

Hi everyone,

I spend a few minutes on it and it was easier than I thought to install... less than 30 minutes download the files and read the readme to figure it out....

I still have a couple questions

#1) on my left side nav panel my "cd_utils" "cd_burn" and "cd_backup" are listed under a title called "unknown"  - how do I move this options to the "backup and restore" subheading

#2) is there a way to include all iBays to a manual backup? Right now it's only giving me the option to backup one ibay

#3) is there a plugin to erase a CDRW available or do I have to still erase the cdrw in windows and place it in the server drive?

thanks,
curtis =)

[arthurhanlon]

Hi there,

What I do to rebuild the server-manager panel is :

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

There may be an easier way but this works for me. There is also a contrib that allows you to change the panel order and contents, not sure what the name of it is, a search should throw it up.

Hope this helps,

Arthur

[tikram]

I had been looking for the same thing with CDRW packages. What package did you use? thanks

[Knuddi]

The normal way to rebuild the menu WITHOUT doing a reboot is:

# /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf

Just disregard all the output.

Rgds,
Jesper

[arthurhanlon]

Cheers Jesper, I knew there would be a quicker and easier alternative. That'll save me some time sorting out menu order.

Arthur

[sahosting]

I had been looking for the same thing with CDRW packages. What package did you use? thanks

Hi,

http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/support.php

you will need to enable SSH with root access and use Putty or something to login to the server.  Download these files:

cdrtools-1.10-11.src.rpm
cd-utils-0.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
e-smith-cd-utils-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm
mkisofs-1.10-11.i386.rpm

copy the files to a floppy disk or cdrw and login to the server.  Mount the drive and change to the device to see the files.

then from the root use the
rpm -Uvh cdrtools-1.10-11.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh cd-utils-0.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh e-smith-cd-utils-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh mkisofs-1.10-11.i386.rpm

then from the root prompt enter the command:
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf

configure the paths and you're up and burning from the administration panel

curtis =)

[pifou]

curtis, what do you mean by "configuring the path". Which files should be modified ? A default backup tried to access the /home/archive/cd_data dir (that was inexistent) and completely locked the backup function.

the only places where /home/archive/cd_data is:
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/cd_utils.conf/00Message

and

/etc/cd_utils.conf

and those values are commented out.

Which file should I modify ?

btw, is it possible to implement a function where we could completely backup the server, as with the "backup on tape" but with a DVD ? Maybe by adding directories to the backup list ?

thanks

[yelnic]

Hi,

http://cd-utils.sourceforge.net/support.php

you will need to enable SSH with root access and use Putty or something to login to the server.  Download these files:

cdrtools-1.10-11.src.rpm
cd-utils-0.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
e-smith-cd-utils-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm
mkisofs-1.10-11.i386.rpm

copy the files to a floppy disk or cdrw and login to the server.  Mount the drive and change to the device to see the files.

then from the root use the
rpm -Uvh cdrtools-1.10-11.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh cd-utils-0.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh e-smith-cd-utils-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh mkisofs-1.10-11.i386.rpm

then from the root prompt enter the command:
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf

configure the paths and you're up and burning from the administration panel

curtis =)

I did all that and I can't get my DVD to write.  Here's the /tmp/cdbackup.err:

scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Input/output error. reserve track: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  53 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 2C 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 53 00 00 0F 30 05 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Cannot open new session.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[kingjm]

these files are meant to work with SME 6.5 has anyone tried to use them with SME 7rc2?

[CharlieBrady]

Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
...
Any ideas?

You just need to read the message

[markfarey]

Thanks to all for a very interesting thread.

Can I please repeat the question regarding SME 7? Has anyone got this working successfully with that version?

Also, I'm not clear on the process. Does this use one DVD per backup regardless of size? That could get expensive. Also does using CD-RW allow multiple backup sessions, although with a much smaller capacity than DVD?

If I use CR-RW do I have to format them on a Windows PC first?

Just hoping to get all this clear before I try to get this working with SME 7 rc3.

Mark,
Ottawa, Canada.