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[one-liner]: Using the Linux Command, dirsplit, to Dynamically Backup a Directory Over Multiple DVDs
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At my day job I deal with a fair amount of image data. We typically are shipping the data out on either hard drives, thumb drives, or via SFTP. On occasion we will some times burn it to a CD and/or a DVD. But until today all the data was either large sets (200-400GB) variety, [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Using tcprobe to Detect a DVD’s Video Format, PAL or NTSC, via the Command Line
Background
Having kids I’m always dealing with DVDs, either backing them up or repairing them. Recently we received a bunch of DVDs from a friend of various kid movies. Some of them just refused to play in our DVD player and being a geek who’s curious I wanted to better understand why. Turns out the DVDs [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Determining a CD/DVD Drive’s Write Speed Capabilities under Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
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Here’s a quick primer on how to determine the capabilities of a CD/DVD drive you may have on your Linux laptop or desktop using the little known command wodim. In truth, wodim is actually the app behind cdrecord & dvdrecord, which are little more than aliases.
NOTE: it’s available as wodim-1.1.11-3.fc14.x86_64 in the default Fedora 14 [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: Archving a Directory Tree into a CD or DVD via the Command Line Using mkisofs on Fedora 14 & CentOS 5
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Recently I was putting together a script to build an archive of all the various files that a project was comprised from. One of the final tasks was to burn the entire lot of files to a CD or DVD, so I took the opportunity to figure out how to do this from the command [...] Continue reading
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[one-liner]: How to Backup a Movie DVD via the Command Line on Fedora 14 & CentOS 5
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Have you ever wanted to make a backup copy of a DVD via the command line? I don’t really care about the politics/legal issues around this simple task, I have 3 kids and don’t really feel like purchasing multiple copies of the same discs. So here’s a quick and dirty way to accomplish the [...] Continue reading
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