[Gllug] Backing up to DVD

[Stephen Harker]

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.

Stephen
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