From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 15:47:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D581106564A for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:47:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F85F8FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:47:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-24-200.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.24.200]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AC616C0044; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:47:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id mB5Flo5T003239; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:47:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:47:50 +0100 From: Polytropon To: "Andrew Gould" Message-Id: <20081205164750.20fce934.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20081205161112.f9bcddff.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: DVD cloning tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:47:53 -0000 On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:42:58 -0600, "Andrew Gould" wrote: > If your CD or DVD is loaded (not mounted) at /dev/cd0, the following command > will create an iso image in the current directory: > > dd if=/dev/cd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048 > > If you want an easy process, you can put this in a script, followed by a > growisofs command to burn the file to another DVD device, allowing the > script to overwrite the previous DVD iso file. Or you could write a script > where you supply a name for the iso image file to maintain backup images. Thanks, dd is a good suggestion for ISO data. But what I need is a 1:1 copy no matter what the DVD actually contains - I know, I didn't mention this in a clear way, sorry. For example, the cdrdao command I mentioned before does copy the source 1:1 to the destination media, for cases such as - an ISO image (data CD) - audio tracks (music CD) - VCD - SVCD - video files without ISO enclosing (yes, my standalone player runs these, and it's easy to mplayer -fs /dev/cd0 to watch a movie that is an AVI or MPG file) - an ISO image *and* audio tracks I'm searching for the same functionality applyable to DVD, so I can easily clone video DVDs I made, as well as data DVDs or DVDs with audio tracks (yes, this works, too). -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...