On Wednesday 26 July 2006 07:29, 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? > >Anne >From the manpage: SYNOPSIS mkisofs [ options ] [ -o filename ] pathspec [pathspec ...] You gave it the filename you wanted to build as an iso, but the not src file pathlist to put in that iso. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
