Little linux backup box - wisdom required

[William Park]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:57:56PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:03:59 -0500
> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:31:43PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> > >    I burn the tarball directly to the disc.  I don't make an ISO.
> > >    Only I need to read this stuff. 
> > 
> > Hmm... what command (and options) do you use?  Can you do that with
> > DVD-RW or CD-RW?

> How I burn to my DVD...
> # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr1=/backup/RevHome.01; eject /dev/sr1
> 
> How I burn to my Blu-ray...
> # growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/backup/RevHome.01; eject /dev/sr0
> 
> For CDs, I used to go...
> # cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=ATA:1,0,0 /backup/RevHome.01

I was able to write to and read back from CD using "cdrecord".  But, my
version of "growisofs -version"

    * growisofs by <appro-6n+bmRoGAL6ci/EUP2OQSw at public.gmane.org>, version 7.1,
      front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 3.01a08
      (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Eric Youngdale
      (C) 1997-2010 Joerg Schilling

is refusing to write regular files to DVD.  What version is yours?
-- 
William
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