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 -- An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
