DVD backup

[NoOp]

On 10/09/2007 09:55 AM, tsai wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Firstly, I am using Feisty Fawn 7.04 i386 and Debian 4.0 amd64.
> I am trying to backup several of my dvds, because some of my favorite
> movies were destroyed by the kids.  I have successfully save some
> to .iso and then be able to burn them again using the growisofs
> command. I ran into a problem though with one wherein only 1.7gb is
> saved to iso, then growisofs stops.  Here is the output:
> 
> root at ai:/home/ai/Movies# dd if=/dev/hdc of=JustinBday.iso
> dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error
> 3257824+0 records in
> 3257824+0 records out
> 1668005888 bytes (1.7 GB) copied, 318.035 seconds, 5.2 MB/s
> root at ai:/home/ai/Movies#
> 
> Any ideas as to what went wrong?
> 

What is the file size of JustinBday.iso? My guess is that it is probably
1.7GB.

I recommend that you give K3b or gnomebaker a try.