easiest way to backup home made DVD

[Thomas Taylor]

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 07:34, yonas abraham wrote:
> Hi,
> I usually edit videos and make DVD.  what I want is an easy way to
> duplicate (create a backup of them) as the DVD-R are very sensitive to
> scratches. Upto late FC4 I used to use dvdbackup using the following
> three steps
>
> dvdbackup -M -i $dvdsource -o $tmpdir/ -n $title
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $title -v -o $tmpdir/$title.iso tmpdir/$title
> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z $dvddest=$tmpdir/$title.iso
>
> But as of lately, I can't compile the dvdbackup from source as most of
> the binary I found them are broken.
>
> I look for an alternative and found some like (k9copy, dvd9to5.pl,
> DVD::rip and so on). But I found these packages an overkill to my
> project as I don't need to "shirk" or transcode. Plus I don't have an
> encrypted DVD.
>
> is there an easy was to duplicate 4.7GB, unencrypted home made DVD's easly?
>
> thanks
>
> BTW, I am using FC5.

Hi Yonas:

You don't say how you create the original DVD but it seems to me that the 
easiest way to "duplicate" the DVD would be to just burn two copies to begin 
with.  If you're doing this in a gui application, they usually have a place 
where you can specify how many copies to burn, and if you're using cli, then 
just up-arrow to bring the last command from history and run it again.

HTH,
Tom

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Tom Taylor
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