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Cc: Ruel Luchavez <ruel.freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Back up files...
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>
> For making backups to DVD you need growisofs(1). This is part of the
> sysutils/dvd+rw-tools port, which you'll need to install.

unless it's DVD+R(W), then with dd or tar works.

> If you have a lot of data, using DVDs is impractical.

not that, unless it's really >100GB