[Gllug] Backing up to DVD

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On Fri, 03 Mar 2006, Stephen Harker wrote:
> Moon Watch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can someone help me.  I want to make a back up of my data on a DVD+R.
>> I had asumed this is as simple as backing up to cd but this is not so.  I
>> createda mkisofs tihe -J -r and -udf.  burnt the resultanty ISO, but the OC,
>> in this case centros would not recognise the format insisting that  there was no
>> media in the drive when there was.  I have searched google but all that it comes
>> up with is about ripping DVD, which is fair enough but not what I am trying to
>> acheive here.
> 
> Google for the "growisofs" command which is the one you should be
> using. It will burn files directly to DVD+R.

The dvdrwtools will do it too. (It's a fork of the cdrecord tools except
with a sane maintainer instead of Joerg Schilling.)

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