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From: Ricardo Bevilacqua <rus.spes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying encrypted files from a DVD
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 04:50:00
Message-Id: 558a8f1a0905152149q854c1a3pc57eca0f76075378@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Copying encrypted files from a DVD by Grant
1 2009/5/15 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>:
2 > I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs.  The files are
3 > encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them
4 > up.  I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm
5 > guessing it's because of the encryption.  Does anyone know of a method
6 > that would back these discs up in their encrypted form?  Here are the
7 > errors I get:
8 >
9 > # cp -R /mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS DVD-A
10 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_1.AOB': Input/output error
11 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_2.AOB': Input/output error
12 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_3.AOB': Input/output error
13 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/ATS_01_4.AOB': Input/output error
14 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/AUDIO_SV.VOB': Input/output error
15 > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/AUDIO_TS.VOB': Input/output error
16 >
17 > - Grant
18 >
19 >
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22 Why don't you use the (very old, but still effective) dd [1] command
23 to create an ISO image?
24
25 dd if=/dev/<your-dvd-device> of=<some-path>/bakup.iso bs=2048 conv=sync,notrunc
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28 That will make an exact copy of your DVD into your hard disk.
29 I don't know if this is what you want to do.
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33 Ricardo.
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35 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copying encrypted files from a DVD Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Copying encrypted files from a DVD Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>