[KLUG Members] Duping a DVD

[Mark Bystry]

excellent. i'll try that tonight. i have to copy strawberry shortcake for my 3 year old daughter. 
teaching her not to trash the original has been challenging.

one question: where does it put the BigJoeDVD.iso? In my home directory somewhere? I was fooling 
around with vobcopy last night. ended up making a coaster (which i needed because i live on 
coffee...ha) before i switched back to k9copy and made a 1:1 copy with all the menus.

thank-you,

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 1/5/2006 10:23 PM:
>> adam, you flippin' amaze me. i always enjoy reading your posts. i learn so much.
>> anyway, i'm not familiar at all with duping a dvd from the command line. i am interesting in making 
>> a 1:1 copy of an encrypted dvd. how do i do this exactly from a command line?
> 
> First you read the *DEVICE* into a file;  you don't mount it as you
> don't want to read the *FILES*, you want to read the *FILESYSTEM*,
> starting from block 0 straight to the end.  You need enough free disk
> space to do this this, and a double layer DVD can be up to 8Gb.
> 
> You can do it via "dd"...
> dd if=/dev/hdc of=BigJoeDVD.iso bs=512
> ... will read the disk in /dev/hdc in 512 byte chunks and write them to
> the file BigJoeDVD.iso;  it will sit-n-spin till it is done,  no status
> or notices it is working other than your flashing drive light.
> 
> Technically, doing it via "dd" is not kosher (although it has always
> worked for me).  The proper way is to use "readcd",  which looks much
> the same -
> 
> readcd dev=/dev/hdc f=BigJoeDVD.iso
> 
> readcd will tell you what is going on as it progresses if you add the
> "-v" option,  you can add more "v"s to make it even chattier, like -
> 
> readcd -vvvv dev=/dev/hdc f=BigJoeDVD.iso
> 
> Then you turn around and blast that file/image onto media -
> 
> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=BigJoeDVD.iso 
> 
> - which will sputter along until it is done.  Then you should have an
> exact duplicate of the original disk.
> 
> 
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