backing up dvds

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thanks for your reply. I don't know if this will make a difference, and 
i should have mentioned it in my original posts these are dvd videos and i 
want to get the complete dvd, everything.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd at dfwlp.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: backing up dvds


> 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,
> -- 
> Jonathan Horne
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