Recording into DVD-RW media
Aaron Griffith
aarong at freedomware.net
Fri Aug 20 22:39:07 UTC 2004
I find growisofs to be the easiest way to burn isos to dvd. Once you
have created your iso you can burn it with the following command:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/image.iso
Aaron
romildo at uber.com.br wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I have just bought a DVD recorder and want to make daily backups
>of some important files into a DVD-RW media. I am in doubt about
>the recommended way of doing this. I am thinking about using the
>following commands to be run from a script in /etc/cron.daily
>
> mkisofs -v -J -R -o /tmp/image.iso -V 'Backup' -A 'Backup' <files to backup>
> umount /dev/dvd || :
> cdrecord -vvv -eject -dev=/dev/dvd blank=fast
> cdrecord -vvv -dao --eject driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/dvd /tmp/image.iso
>
>Is that a good procedure? I am looking for comments on it.
>
>Regards.
>
>Romildo
>
>
>
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