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Command Line DVD Burning (for data backup)



At 05:06 PM 10/19/2004, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:52:25PM -0400, Bob Gorman wrote:
>> I've been looking into burning small data backups onto DVDs, from the command line.
>> 
>> Any recommendations for command line tools?
>
>growisofs works well for me. Is there something about it that isn't
>meeting your needs?
>
>Nathan
>
>> So far, for tools I've been using readily available RPMs from RedHat (RHEL3): cdrecord, dvdrecord and dvd+rw-tools.
>>
>> I've had success with growisofs from dvd+rw-tools. 

growisofs has been working very well.  I was just trying to find out if there was any other options that I had missed.  Tools that come from RedHat are not always best-of-breed.






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