[ale] Lazy guy wants to burn large backup into DL DVD
John Mills
johnmills at speakeasy.net
Sat Nov 13 08:45:07 EST 2010
Michael -
Thanks very much, and thanks also to Mike and Greg for their help.
I'll give the script a shot (in the spirit of laziness, of course).
Regards.
- Mills
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:15 -0500, John Mills wrote:
>> I have a directory branch of about 6 GBy miscellaneous gold and cruft
>> and I would like to back it up.
> I have a script for burning a directory tree to media; I've attached it.
> It uses xorriso by default, which is what I use for DVD, DVD-DL, and BD
> media, though it can also use wodim by passing a switch. It's simple,
> quick and dirty because I do this all the time.
> It's called "bd" for "burn directory". I don't ensure that it will work
> for anyone but myself, it's not something I've released, but if you make
> any changes to it, I'd sure not mind having them sent back as a patch.
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