Does anyone have a *SCRIPT* for backing up data to DVD+R media under Fedora?

[T. E. Pickering]

> I am still trying to use my DVD+RW/+R drive with my backup scripts.
> 
> With my CD-RW drive I used a script which tarred all the directories,
> split it into CD sized chunks, turned the chunks into ISOs and then
> wrote them to CDRs.
> 
> I am trying to do the same thing with DVD+R media now.
> 
> Does anyone have a bash script to accomplish this?
> - I don't want to know that such-and-such gui program does it.  I am
> trying to automate it, not use a gui program.
> - I don't want a script for DVD-R media (I believe DVD+R is different)

just use your cd-rw scripts, but make dvd-sized ISOs and then use
growisofs to burn the ISOs to dvd media:

 growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

i have used this successfully with all dvd + or - media, even dvd-ram.

tim

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