Re: Recording into DVD-RW media

[Aaron Griffith <aarong freedomware net>]

I find growisofs to be the easiest way to burn isos to dvd.  Once you 
have created your iso you can burn it with the following command:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/image.iso

Aaron


romildo uber com br wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have just bought a DVD recorder and want to make daily backups
> of some important files into a DVD-RW media. I am in doubt about
> the recommended way of doing this. I am thinking about using the
> following commands to be run from a script in /etc/cron.daily
>
>  mkisofs -v -J -R -o /tmp/image.iso -V 'Backup' -A 'Backup' <files to backup>
>  umount /dev/dvd || :
>  cdrecord -vvv -eject -dev=/dev/dvd blank=fast
>  cdrecord -vvv -dao --eject driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/dvd /tmp/image.iso
>
> Is that a good procedure? I am looking for comments on it.
>
> Regards.
>
> Romildo
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