Re: [Dump-users] dump & cdrecord

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:20:12PM -0500, David Gesswein wrote:

> > That's what the restore -V option is there for. 
> > 
> > Correction: looking at the source I see that -V is used only when 
> > reading multi-volume *compressed* dumps (and indeed, this is what I
> > use myself). I wonder whether uncompressed dumps need a special treatement
> > or not...
> > 
> Works fine if I compress with -z1. Since the data wasn't too compressable I
> had decided to not compress. With compression does a read error make
> the rest of the backup unreadable or does the decompression resync?

Each block is compressed individually so it should resync.

> Might be good to document the interaction of -V and compression if not
> done already.

I'll do.

Did you try to burn with -dao as someone suggested ?

Stelian.
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