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Questions tagged [optical-media]

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Good backup/archiving software?

I want to archive several folders and delete them from my HD. What are good software to archive those files, to test the dvds every few months for corruption. Track other dvds that have a copy of said corrupted file(s), etc. Some folders require…
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how to mount an ext3 filesystem with a smaller blocksize then device blocksize?

I had an ext3 filesystem on my hard disk at /dev/hdc2 with a small 1024 byte blocksize. Now I recorded the whole filesystem on a DVD like this: dd if=/dev/hdc2 of=/tmp/image.img wodim -dev=/dev/scd0 /tmp/image.img Now when I am trying to mount it,…
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*why* should we not use optical drives on SCU server ports?

So I'm building out a VM/file server using a Supermicro X9SRA, and as I'm figuring out where I want to plug everything in I end up learning about the SCU on the Intel chipsets. I find a few things here here here that basically say "Don't plug…
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Mac OS 10.4 asking for admin credentials for folder deletion

A user in our company uses Mac OS 10.4 on a G5. She has a CD with Illustrator CS3 stuff on it. She copied 2 folders on the desktop and now she needs to delete both. When she tries, she gets a popup asking to enter Administrator Username and…
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How to replace an SC-Duplex-switch with an SFP switch?

Currently I have some switches in our network, which use (besides the Fast Ethernet ports) also optical fiber with two SC-Duplex-Connectors (one in and one out). Now I want to replace these old devices by a newer model, but unfortunately modern…
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WIndows Server 2012 R2 + Windows 7 Ultimate CD Burn Rights

H have recently installed a ADDC in my office to manage users. I have actually setup roaming profiles and everything is great apart from one little issue... On the PCs standard users are unable to burn any CDs (which they need to be able to do) due…
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Recovery from bad CD with linux

I have a CD which isn't properly finished. I have to recover the data from it. Machines react kind of differently for it but none of them can access it. I can't even DD the data off... dd if=/dev/sr0 of=movie.iso dd: opening `/dev/sr0': No medium…
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How to mount a CDROM on a Xen guest virtual machine?

How to mount a CDROM on a Xen guest virtual machine? I tried adding this to the disk array with no success 'phy:/dev/cdrom,xvdb:cdrom,r'
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cdrom redirection fails on ILOM for Sun x4600 M2

We have been able to successfully redirect the ILOM on this x4600 M2 in the past, but for some reason now we are getting an error that says "CD-ROM image redirection failed to start": We have also launched the Storage Redirection service and that…
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Backing up audit data with growisofs

We've had a problem occur when writing to DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs using growisofs on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0. What we’re trying to do is backup audit data that we've stored, which is basically one .zip file for each day's worth of audit data. The .zip…
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Solaris 10 OK PROMPT - CDROM situation

This is not an emergency, but I would like to save a trip to the datacentre during the weekend. It turns out that I need to reinstall Solaris 10 on a server, but the drive seems to be open/ejected. Is there a way from the OK prompt to close the…
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Splitting an archive on multiple media

I'm generating archives which are larger than my current physical media ( DVD ). I'd like to split those archives: automatically - instead of generating mini-archives by hand; consistently - so that an archive can be extracted independently of…
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bootable CD to upgrade firmware

We have a DL380 G6 and we want to put the latest BIOS firmware on a bootable CD-ROM. The bootable USB installer that HP provides works great, but we want a bootable CD-ROM instead, because we have many servers and a CD is easier to duplicate. The…
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regenerate iso file from running livecd -- dd won't run reliably and genisoimage has catch-22s

In the field I need some users to be able to make iso files reliably from a cdrom that is also serving as a mounted LiveCD and so I concocted a manual test case before doing any scripting. The test case fails. ISO Duplication Test Procedure To be…
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Why does cdrecord alter my image when writing to CD ROM and how can I avoid it?

I want to use optical media for backups and hence created a luks image equivalent to that of a 80 min CD-ROM and recorded it twice using the cdrecord # first run $ cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 image.luks # second run $ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -date…
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