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DVD-R/W In Unix?
Vilorman asks: "So has
anyone been successful at writing DVD's in Unix? At work, we're
primarily a Solaris shop and we just got an IDE CD-RW working but
it's a little small. We need to archive a four gig filesystem and
DVD sounds like the way to go. I do have a few concerns:
how well does Solaris or Linux supoort the DVD media; and what type of
drive works best under either OS (IDE, SCSI, Firewire, etc)? I've
found IDE and FireWire drives but SCSI DVR-R/W still seems to be a
little scarce. One would assume (from looking at the code) that Schilly's
CD-Record and mkisofs would get the job done with a DVD, right?"
I'm sure this guy will be changing over from Solaris servers to Imacs...
Maybe you were trying to be facetious or funny or something, but you just ended up looking dumb.
Take an iMac with OS X. Mount your server's filesystem via NFS. Dump the filesystem to DVD with the OS X disk utility. What's the problem?
If you don't want to back up a live filesystem, then drop to single user and do a dump, then burn the dump to DVD.
Either way, it's a hell of a lot easier to do stuff like that with OS X than it is with Windows (Unix interoperability not included) or Linux (DVD burning not included).