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Subject: Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?
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> You can always try to tar it up directly
>
> tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/

Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by
the likes of cdrecord or burncd?  If so, should it also be possible
to burn an existing .iso by something like

  dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b