Burning backup to dvd

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 12:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> You are missing the last parameter of the mkisofs command.  You need to
>> tell it *what* to put in /Backup/mybackup.iso
>>
>>
> Duh! - switch the brain on, Anne.  OK - but when I get to the burn command it 
> tells me that it has found a dvd media, but then says the data may not fit on 
> the disk.  It goes on to say that most cds will only take 90minutes.  Do I 
> need to add anything into the command to tell it that it's a dvd?
> 
> ISTR that there is a package that adds tools for dvd writing, and that may not 
> be installed.  If that's what it needs, can you remind me of the package 
> name?

dvd+rw-tools

This package includes the growisofs command, which can write DVDs "on 
the fly" without the intermediate ISO file creation.

e.g.
growisofs -speed=2 -Z /dev/dvdwriter -R -J file ...

Paul.