Subject: Re: Backing up CD's
To: Stefan Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
From: Francisco Valladolid <francisco@vmicrosistemas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/22/2003 15:40:02
Try using mkisofs to create image an then burn this with cdrecord package.

the address is:
$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrecord

I hope and be useful.




Stefan Schumacher wrote:

>* Brian Rose (lists@brianrose.net) wrote:
>
>>I'm backing up a game I purchased recently and I am having some issues. I 
>>am currently using good ole dd in the following way...
>>
>>dd if=/dev/cd0a of=filename.iso bs=2k
>>
>
>[dd dies]
>
>>dd transfers 1.6 megabytes before dying. It should have 686,510,080 bytes 
>>(according to my Windows box). I found some information on the net that 
>>suggests that multi-session CD's may not work with this method, but there 
>>was no information about how to make it work.
>>
>
>Could it be that there is a kind of copy protection used on that CD? 
>Have you tried dump(8) to create a backup? dump is really strong and IMO the
>best backup tool.
>
>--
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>die mit offenen Haenden herumlaufen"
>
>ein gewisser Edmund Stoiber
>

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Francisco Valladolid.
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