[SGVLUG] Backups and DVDs - what do you use/like?

[Alex Roston]

You're quite correct. However, unless you make enough CDs to have 
memorized the mkiofs commands, you might as well use XCDRoast - it grabs 
those tools, uses them correctly to set up your drive, and gives you all 
the options any reasonable person could want.

Alex

Steve Bibayoff wrote:

>Hello,
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>On 4/16/06, Alex Roston <tungtung at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>>XCDRoast will pick up on most models of CD-ROM (probably all of them
>>unless you have an old one that plugs into a sound card or something)
>>and many models of DVD. Usually it "just works."
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>You still need cdrecord and mkisofs. XCDroast is just a GUI front end
>for these tools. If these tools don't support the DVD/CD burner you
>have, XDCRoast won't either.
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>Steve
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