On 11/22/06, Eric Shubes <plug@shubes.net> wrote:

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Would it be simple enough to just use k3b to burn the backup

directory/files? I don't know, but perhaps there's a way to feed a macro to
k3b so it burns the backup without having to do much of anything.

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-Eric 'shubes'

I had been checking more into using cdrecord and found some very good articles on the web. Then I went to try a couple of steps and cdrecord gave this message:

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-27-686
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

Hmmm. Then I looked for another package and found gnomebaker and k3b. Turns out they are both based on cdrecord as well. I actually did burn the backup directories to a cd using gnomebaker and while successful, that same message showed up in an event log in a window it opened.

Makes me wonder how many people might have issues burning CDs on current distro versions if so many of the tools are basicly just GUIs using cdrecord under the covers and it has issues under recent kernels.