Hi All, Can any body help me to take backup on DVD at RHEL4? I got a new DVD RW RECORDER and attached to the Linux server. please see the followig commands output. # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'FREECOM_' 'DVD+/-RW20J6 ' '9F51' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * Last few lines of dmesg command. # dmesg usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 2 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: FREECOM_ Model: DVD+/-RW20J6 Rev: 9F51 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Can someone help me to take backup from a foleder of hard drive to DVDs. Please mention step-by-step commands, from mounting DVD recorder to end. Thanks.
Here's a howto for Debian but the process is the same... http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/03/61-how-to-burn-dvds-from-the-command-line Package names will be different in RHEL but check the RHN and you will find the same tools...
