DVD writing, alpha architecture, recommendations wanted

2004-03-18 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear masters of DVD writing! We are planning to switch from tape backups to DVD backups in our institute at the university. Our backup server is a alpha SX164, with a Promise PDC20267 UDMA100 IDE controller, running debian/woody. I have the following questions: - Is writing of DVDs supported on

Multi Volume CD/DVDs

2004-03-18 Thread Ashish Rangole
Pardon my ignorance, but I would like to ask what is the commonly practiced method of creating multi-volume disks. That is, for instance I need to burn a directory that has files whose combined size is, say 12 GB. How would one go about creating multiple ISO9660 images from it and then burning

Re: Re: Re: cdrecord-ProDVD and Liteon DVDRW LDW-451S?

2004-03-18 Thread joachim
Hello, sorry for the missing description and the HTML mail (Lotus Notes ;-) ). I had: $ ./cdrecord-wrapper.sh dev=0,0,0 -driveropts=help -checkdrive Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01a27 ??? (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling : : Device type: Removable CD-ROM And then, in

DVD writing, alpha architecture, recommendations wanted

2004-03-18 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear masters of DVD writing! We are planning to switch from tape backups to DVD backups in our institute at the university. Our backup server is a alpha SX164, with a Promise PDC20267 UDMA100 IDE controller, running debian/woody. I have the following questions: - Is writing of DVDs supported on

Multi Volume CD/DVDs

2004-03-18 Thread Ashish Rangole
Pardon my ignorance, but I would like to ask what is the commonly practiced method of creating multi-volume disks. That is, for instance I need to burn a directory that has files whose combined size is, say 12 GB. How would one go about creating multiple ISO9660 images from it and then burning