backing up dvds

[Garrett Cooper]

Jonathan Horne wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
> dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024
>
> this is how i make my .iso files of data disks.
>
> cheers,
>   

Both previous answers assume that you're not trying to backup 
copyrighted CDs. In that case you need to deCSS them first, but you're 
on your own with that.

-Garrett