backing up dvds

[Jonathan Horne]

On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds
> to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be
> needed. I can use dvdbackup to backup in to a directory structure, but i'd
> rather not mount, create the directory, and iso, i'd rather make the iso
> directly from the dvd. Any pointers on this?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024

this is how i make my .iso files of data disks.

cheers,
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Jonathan Horne
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