Drakbackup - Won't Record to DVD (SOLVED-Sort of!)

[Cheemag]

I noticed that your system identified your drive as "removable CD-ROM". Surely that isn't right. Have you ever burned any Cd or DVD on it? What does K3B report?

   Drakbackup and Grsync both see the DVD-RW as a "CD-ROM" which is incorrect. I assure you it an RW device which is seen by the system as such.

  Yes, K3b writes CDs and DVDs normally.

Drakbackup and Grsync are applications that write to file systems, as stated before, and are not burner applications. They will only write to hard drives, USB pendrives, tape drives, or formatted RW media, (think DVD-RAM) when it's mounted as a writable file system. K3b is a burner application, which is an entirely different thing.

  I was beginning to suspect that, but are you sure?

   Drakbackup offers to back up to:  "(.) On CD-R "  at the third screen of the Wizard. Then at [Configure] I'm offered the use of CD-R/DVD-R to backup to.  Then choosing my CD/DVD device I'm offered /dev/hdb, which is a Pioneer DV-116D, a read-write device.

  After that I'm offered all sorts of options for all sorts of writing methods: -RW,  -R. and -RAM, even with multisession. (My drive doesn't support DVD-RAM).

  So I was confused that, having chosen what was offered, it refused to write to what I had chosen, after having given me the impression that it was a backup application with the ability to burn different media.

[Was_Just19]

JohnBoy:

Got that echo in here again.

Another Déjà vú moment     

[Was_Just19]

I just tried a backup using the GUI in PCC and it does offer to back up to optical media.

My first attempt to do the backup failed with similar output reported above.
This was my first ever attempt to do this so I may have had some settings incorrect.



EDIT
         At the page where the CD type etc is specified, at the last line (I think) there are boxes to tick for different types of media. All types are selected by default here, which I guess is confusing the issue.

Try unticking those that do not apply ...... leaving just the one type of media ticked and see if that cures the problem ....

regards.

[Was_Just19]

For some reason my optical drive is seen from within DrakBackup as   /dev/sg0

Everywhere else it is seen as /dev/sr0

I think the failure to find a usable piece of media is due to the non existent drive being accessed.

...  well it sure seems that way .......   

[Cheemag]

I just tried a backup using the GUI in PCC and it does offer to back up to optical media.

My first attempt to do the backup failed with similar output reported above.
This was my first ever attempt to do this so I may have had some settings incorrect.



EDIT
         At the page where the CD type etc is specified, at the last line (I think) there are boxes to tick for different types of media. All types are selected by default here, which I guess is confusing the issue.

Try unticking those that do not apply ...... leaving just the one type of media ticked and see if that cures the problem ....

regards.

  Not here. All the boxes are unticked.

  No, sorry, that's wrong ...

  When you choose your CD/DVD device the appropriate boxes at the bottom are ticked. On mine that's "CD+RW media" and "DVD-R" media. DVD-RAM isn't ticked.

  Given that these choices are logical for my drive, how come it's seeing it as a CD-ROM when it comes to the burn? !!

  Even after getting all that right, a test session crashed like this:

Code:

Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'PIONEER '
Identification : 'DVD-RW  DVR-116D'
Revision       : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO

Error: Does not appear to be recordable media!

[Was_Just19]

I get "does not appear to be recordable media!"  after the backup is written to the HDD.
I can of course put it on a DVD from there using K3b, but that is not the point.

I do not appear to have a "modim.conf" file on my system, which may allow the changing of the device node being used as default by wodim ........ although I am not at all sure.

I am offered only /dev/sg0  as the burner  ....   and not /dev/sr0  which is the burner's designation.

[Was_Just19]

OK, I got a step further along the road ......  succeeded in getting Drakbackup to see the correct optical drive, but unfortunately it is still reporting the media as unsuitable .......

As root I opened and edited

/etc/drakbackup/drakbackup.conf   file  ..... changing /dev/sg0  to /dev/sr0 which is my drive.

The report from Drakbackup shows that it now sees the correct drive ...  it identifies it and its capabilities correctly.

Still stuck ...  but a little further up the road 

regards.

[Cheemag]

OK, I got a step further along the road ......  succeeded in getting Drakbackup to see the correct optical drive, but unfortunately it is still reporting the media as unsuitable .......

As root I opened and edited

/etc/drakbackup/drakbackup.conf   file  ..... changing /dev/sg0  to /dev/sr0 which is my drive.

The report from Drakbackup shows that it now sees the correct drive ...  it identifies it and its capabilities correctly.

Still stuck ...  but a little further up the road 

regards.

For me:

Control Centre/DVD Burner page:

Code:

Mount point: /media/cdrom
Device: hdb
Name: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D
Type: auto
Options: umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec

/etc/drakxtools/drakbackup/drakbackup.conf:

Code:

FROM_MAIL=drakbackup
MAX_SPACE=1000
PATH_TO_SAVE=/var/lib/drakbackup
ARCHIVER=tar
SYS_FILES=/etc
DVDR=1
USER_INCREMENTAL_BACKUPS=1
NO_SYS_FILES=1
CD_DEVICE=/dev/hdb
USE_CD=1
OPTION_COMP=tar.gz
HOME_FILES=jim
USE_HD=1
CD_TIME="4.7 GB"
NET_PROTO=ftp
SMTP_SERVER=localhost
SYS_INCREMENTAL_BACKUPS=1