Burn a DVD via command line (data only)

relicrelic
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Need some help guys, I finally convinced my company to purchase 4 new Powermacs. These are test macs to see if they can replace our aging Sparcs. The company lives in a 60 percent command line world, Perl scripts and Cshell. We would like to transfer data around and archive it into the built in DVD-R. Easy using the finder or Toast, however i need to be able to backup info from NY and stick it on a computer in Zurich. Is there a way to burn a DVD via the command line? Not asking for someone to right the script for me, just point me in the right direction. Any help in this would be most appreciated for time is running out, damn sys admin want's to stick us with Sunblade 100's, yuck! <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    yes, there is a way. i think the program supports most all *nixes; but definitely most (and definitely macosx). its called 'cdrecord'. part of the 'cdrtools' package (i think). try to google either of those terms (or both), and you'll get hit with a number of things. there are tutorials, and walkthroughs on the ol' inet. and dont let the name fool ya, cdrecord can burn dvd's too (assuming u got the hardware ). it can be done completely on the CLI, and there are a number of gnome, and qt frontends available too (should ur co. ever decide to wake up to the last qtr century of GUIs).
  • Reply 2 of 6
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Yeah, cdrecord will do it, but it's a bit daunting...lots of command-line options...



    Incantations like mkisofs -J -T -R -r -l -f -pad -V "blah blah" -o blah.iso /blah/blah/blah



    Scary stuff...
  • Reply 3 of 6
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    No hardcore unix guy would be intimidate by command line options.



    It looks like what you need <a href="http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html"; target="_blank">cdrecord</a>
  • Reply 4 of 6
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>Yeah, cdrecord will do it, but it's a bit daunting...lots of command-line options...



    Incantations like mkisofs -J -T -R -r -l -f -pad -V "blah blah" -o blah.iso /blah/blah/blah



    Scary stuff...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That's what aliases are for.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Thankyou, It works great! CDrecord is very configurable and stable, I wrote two Perl scripts that make the program easier to use . Thanks again for your help you've saved Christmas.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Blade 100s are truly horrible, aren't they?



    Commodity PC components with commodity PC reliability...coupled with slow-arse LP UltraSPARC IIe CPUs.



    Rage Pro graphics... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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