Re: Burning backup to dvd

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Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 12:08, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> I use amanda to create backups that are split to fit on a dvd, but so far
>>> I have not been able to create the dvd.  It may be a permissions problem,
>>> or it may be a k3b problem.  I have tried to make the backup by running
>>> k3b as amanda, and also by running k3b as root.
>> I just use cdrecord:
>>
>> http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BackupFilesToCDorDVD
>>
> Thanks for the link, Paul.  
> 
> I'm assuming that I should do this as user 'amanda', since she owns the files.  
> Amanda is a member of group disk, and disk has write access to the /Backup 
> directory.
> 
> Using
> 
> mkisofs -joliet -uid 0 -gid 0 -file-mode 444 -dir-mode 555 
> -output /Backup/mybackup.iso
> 
> I get 'mkisofs: Missing pathspec.'
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

You are missing the last parameter of the mkisofs command.  You need to
tell it *what* to put in /Backup/mybackup.iso

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