Re: Using CDs/DVDs to backup and dvdisaster
On Aug 16 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Rogério Brito wrote:
> >I recently discovered one excellent program already packaged for Debian,
> >called dvdisaster. I would recommend it to anybody interested in seeing
> >how (un)reliable your CDs/DVDs are.
(...)
>
> Just what the doctor ordered!
Indeed, dvdisaster is quite amazing at doing its job. I found some hard to
read CDs among some of what I considered "safe" (and I tried more than one
drive, just to make sure).
> The Debian package is "only" unstable so I dnldd. the tarball for Sarge
> and installed per instructions w/o a hitch.
Indeed. I took the package from incoming.debian.org when it was still not
in unstable, but I've been running etch (testing). I do think that this is
one of the programs that would merit a backport, if we had to choose
packages.
Regards,
--
Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito
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