Linux script to burn DVDs

[Cheetah8799]

I'm looking at building a standalone backup server for a small business here, and would like to setup a way for it to automatically burn DVDs from a cronjob in Linux. With the pre-req of the user actually putting a blank disc in the drive on a regular basis of course.


Has anyone here done this before? Are there any well-known scripts or apps that are on the net which I should look at? I admit, my research has been limited so far. I'm pretty busy here right now with work and such...


thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

You shouldn't need much scripting here unless you want to.

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

 

[Cheetah8799]

Thank you very much Nothinman. That'll get me on the right track.

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/growisofs1.html


I agree, my scripts will end up being pretty basic. Probably some checking to verify the data size won't be too much for a DVD, maybe a way to check if there is a blank DVD in the drive. things like that.

I plan to develop some other basic scripts using Samba to pull files down from client machines at the customer location to mirrored drives on the backup server, then burn data to disc. Currently there is nothing in place for backups of this sort, so I expect this will be a huge improvement.