Burning backup to dvd

[Justin Piszcz]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Poohba wrote:

> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso
>
> /dev/dvd should be the drive.  mine is /dev/hdc and i just use that
> instead of symlink'n it
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files
> works for me with no problem also.  I have never tried to append.  I
> missed a lot of your posts so I don't know what has already been tried.
> I apologize for any repeated information.
>
> gives what error?  If it starts at all then the media is fine.  If it
> fails immediately it could be the media unless the error is more
> specific.
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:13 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:00, Poohba wrote:
>>> Have you tried growisofs?
>>>
>> Yes
>>
>> Anne
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This is a bad idea, you should ALWAYS burn DVD's with UDF only, burning 
with ISO is a very bad idea, for instance, if you burn a file > 2GB on an 
ISO, you will only be able to read the first 2GB of it.  There are other 
problems as well.