[ale] Copying CDs with cdrecord

[James Sumners]

As long as you can read the cds when you are done then I would suppose so.

On 22 Jan 2004 21:01:45 -0500
Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> That is hilarious.  
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to a presentation that I did a few years back. 
> This had a slide that did talk about how to make a copy.  using the
> -isosize option.  I'm not suer how that works with non-iso cd's or audio
> cds.  I have burned backup on CD's and DVD's that were in ext2 format. 
> Not ISO9660.  Hopefully that will not cause me pain. I do not plan on
> reading them under Winbloze anyway and I clearly point out on the label
> that they are ext2 and not ISO9660.  The only downside is the way I
> create the image.
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/img bs=1024k count=4400
> # losetup /dev/loop0
> # mke2fs -i 2048 /dev/loop0
> # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
> # cp -dpvR /tmp/data_to_backup/* /mnt
> # umount /mnt
> # losetup -d /dev/loop0
> # cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -speed=2 -data -v /tmp/img.
> 
> This is okay right?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 20:35, James Sumners wrote:
> > http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2003-05/msg00419.html
> > 
> > On 22 Jan 2004 10:32:08 -0500
> > Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have an audio CD that has data and music.  Is there a way to use
> > > cdrecord to make a copy of this disk from one drive to the other.  I do
> > > not want to have to write data to disk first.  I've been using winbloze
> > > programs to make copies but prefer to use Linux.
> > > 
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