Command Line DVD Burning (for data backup)

[Bob Gorman]

At 05:02 PM 11/2/2004, David Kramer wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Bob Gorman wrote:
>> growisofs depends upon mkisofs.  mkisofs is a little brain-damaged, in
>> that it disregards directories in path names.  For example, if I want to
>> backup a couple of random user directories I would use a command like
>> this:
>> 
>>   mkisofs -R -D -J /home/user1/ /home/user2/
>> 
>> This will take all files in the two directories and smush them together
>> under a single root directory.  Not a desirable feature.  Oddly,
>> subdirectories will be maintained.
>
>Have you tried 
>    mkisofs -R -D -J /home/user1 /home/user2

Same result. No special nuance for how directories are indicated, as rsync does.  But that is a good idea.