[Gllug] Backing up to DVD

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 04 Mar, Moon Watch wrote:
> 
> Hi, again,
> 
> Thanks for the help.. however I now need to burn an DVD-R from an iso file.
> Before wasting more media.  Can I check do I use cdrecord or dvdrecord or
> some other utility?
> 

   Whatever you use, I find that discs burnt at the default speed, which is
usually the speed quoted as "up to ---", are unreliable, so I deliberately
reduce the specified write speed and also select "verify written data". It
takes longer, but I am happy with that.


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Chris Bell

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