Command Line DVD Burning (for data backup)

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Tue Nov 2 17:02:28 EST 2004


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Bob Gorman wrote:
> growisofs depends upon mkisofs.  mkisofs is a little brain-damaged, in
> that it disregards directories in path names.  For example, if I want to
> backup a couple of random user directories I would use a command like
> this:
> 
>   mkisofs -R -D -J /home/user1/ /home/user2/
> 
> This will take all files in the two directories and smush them together
> under a single root directory.  Not a desirable feature.  Oddly,
> subdirectories will be maintained.

Have you tried 
    mkisofs -R -D -J /home/user1 /home/user2

See if that works.

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