> I am still trying to use my DVD+RW/+R drive with my backup scripts. > > With my CD-RW drive I used a script which tarred all the directories, > split it into CD sized chunks, turned the chunks into ISOs and then > wrote them to CDRs. > > I am trying to do the same thing with DVD+R media now. > > Does anyone have a bash script to accomplish this? > - I don't want to know that such-and-such gui program does it. I am > trying to automate it, not use a gui program. > - I don't want a script for DVD-R media (I believe DVD+R is different) just use your cd-rw scripts, but make dvd-sized ISOs and then use growisofs to burn the ISOs to dvd media: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso i have used this successfully with all dvd + or - media, even dvd-ram. tim -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | T. E. Pickering, Ph.D. | MMT Observatory | | Assoc. Staff Scientist | 933 N. Cherry Ave. | | tim@xxxxxxxx | Tucson, AZ 85721 | | tpickering@xxxxxxxxxxx (SMS) | (520) 626-3755 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ The bogosity meter just pegged.
