Burning backup to dvd

[Paul Howarth]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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

Which in the example in the link above is "." (easily missed...)

Paul.