Subject: Re: Backing up CD's
To: Francisco Valladolid <francisco@vmicrosistemas.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/23/2003 23:56:18
>
> the address is:
> $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrecord
>
> I hope and be useful.
>


or better cdrdao that copies many protected CD's (that has artificial "bad
blocks" and other things to prevent copying)
>
>
>
> 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.
> >
> >--
> >Wenn ich sehe, in Sachsen-Anhalt, das sind auch immer die Leute,
> >die mit offenen Haenden herumlaufen"
> >
> >ein gewisser Edmund Stoiber
> >
>
> --
>
> Francisco Valladolid.
> <francisco@vmicrosistemas.com>    <ficovh@bsdguy.net>
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