Backup a Video DVD

[Kipton Moravec]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 19:33 -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
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> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > I have been trying all day to back up a DVD on my Ubuntu 8.10 system.
> > 
> > What I would like is a copy of the DVD that appears the same when I put
> > it in the DVD player as the original.
> > 
> > I tarted looking at Brasero and Gnome Baker but they do not do Video DVD
> > only Data DVD.
> > 
> > dvd:Rip works but I do not know what to do with the .rip file on my hard
> > drive.
> > 
> > k9copy says it can not open the DVD, even though dvd:Rip had no
> > problems.
> > 
> > Now I am playing with DVD Movie Backup on the Ubuntu 9.10 system. It
> > started and showed progress, and when it stopped 15 minutes later, it
> > had created a .ISO file that had 0 bytes in it.
> > 
> > So I googled: ubuntu copy dvd to dvd
> > 
> > Brings up dvd:Rip but 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVD::Rip
> > But I still do not know what to do with the .rip file.
> > 
> > The page has a pointer to k9copy page 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/K9Copy
> 
> I'm not familiar with the above, but k3b (Tools > Copy DVD) is painless.
> Or `dd if=/dev/<yourdvddrive> of=fileondisk.iso`.
> 
> Sarunas

I do not know what k3b is, but the command line version looks the
simplest.

I assume I can go:
dd if=/dev/sd0 of=fileondisk.iso
then put in a blank DVD and go 
dd if=fileondisk.iso of=/dev/sd0

Thanks,
Kip
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