DVD backup

[Brian Fahrlander]

tsai wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Firstly, I am using Feisty Fawn 7.04 i386 and Debian 4.0 amd64.
> I am trying to backup several of my dvds, because some of my favorite
> movies were destroyed by the kids.  I have successfully save some
> to .iso and then be able to burn them again using the growisofs
> command. I ran into a problem though with one wherein only 1.7gb is
> saved to iso, then growisofs stops.  Here is the output:
> 
> root at ai:/home/ai/Movies# dd if=/dev/hdc of=JustinBday.iso
> dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error
> 3257824+0 records in
> 3257824+0 records out
> 1668005888 bytes (1.7 GB) copied, 318.035 seconds, 5.2 MB/s
> root at ai:/home/ai/Movies#
> 
> Any ideas as to what went wrong?

     Not really, but some guesses (since no one else has responded):

     1. The process above is for reading into an ISO; if it were the 
other direction I'd suggest checking the media you're writing. But 
unless there's a system limit I'm of which I'm unaware, this *should* work.

     2. In a similar vein; can you be certain there isn't some sort of 
copy protection in use?

     There are tools for doing this, which are better than dd; DVD:Rip 
which is kinda complicated but really effective, and Thoggen, which 
isn't complicated at all.  Both are in the repos.

     If you're just wanting to grab a copy of the main feature for 
backup, I'd suggest Thoggen. It's almost so simple it looks complicated; 
you'll see what I mean when you get there.

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