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

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Sun Jan 4 02:33:54 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:00, Peter Kiem wrote:
> 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)

I haven't tried dvd-burning at all, but exactly what is the problem
you're running into?
If you can make dvd's from the command line at all it should just be a
matter of editing the size of the backup-chunks and run the command to
burn it, shouldn't it?

Sturla





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