cdrecord and dvds

[Carl Karsten]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:05 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>>I have a script that back's up dirs of data to DVD using cdrecord.
>>
>>When I run the cdrecod that I got with ubuntu, I get:
>>
>>cdrecord: Found DVD media but DVD-R/DVD-RW support code is missing.
>>cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for cdrecord-ProDVD.
>>cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at 
>>ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
>>cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
>>cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on DVD support.
>>
>>I read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian which says:
>>
>>apt-get source cdrtools
>>Reading package lists... Done
>>Building dependency tree... Done
>>E: Unable to find a source package for cdrtools
>>
>>(should I bugzilla this?)
>>
>>I did find that apt-get install dvdrtools gives me dvdrecord which I think is the 
>>patched cdrecord, but it seems to be a much older version of cdrecord, and I am 
>>using some newer options.
>>
>>Before I tweek my script to use the older version, is there a ubuntu way to get 
>>the newer dvd enabled version of cdrecord?
>>
>>Carl K
>>
> 
> Use "growisofs" which is installed by default in Ubuntu and is easier to
> use than cdrecord.  See "man growisofs".  In a nutshell, to create a new
> session with the contents of a directory "~/Backup", you would use
> something like:
>         growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw -R -J -V "The Name of the Volume" ~/Backup
> 
> To add another session, you would run:
>         growisofs -M /dev/dvdrw -R -J -V "The Name of the Volume" ~/Backup2
> 
> ("-R" and "-J" are to enable "Rock Ridge" and "Microsoft Joliet"
> extensions respectively.  All successive invocations must match the
> first one except for the data to be copyed of course.)
> 
> The manual is very easy and straightforward.
> Ziyad.
> 

I did look over the docs - I have even used growisofs in the developement of the 
script (about a year ago), and for some reason gave up on growisofs (not sure 
exactly why)  I did get some sucessful burns with growisofs, but I think I 
couldn't figure out how to do the same things I could do with cdrecord.

Here is an example of the line I currently end up with:

mkisofs -v -x check.md5 -dvd-video -J -R -follow-links ./ | cdrecord 
tsize=3793808s dev=/dev/hdb -eject driveropts=burnfree -sao -

What is the growisofs version of that?

Carl K