williamhaley / dvd-backup

DVD Backup

For backuping up DVDs. A DVD's shelf life can be as little as 30 years. An iso file is probably a more robust long-term solution for preserving a personal DVD. This can be helpful for backing up old family video DVDs, data DVDs, hobby project/student film DVDs, etc.

Better projects exist than this one. This repository exists only to suit the needs of a single user

Run

bash dvd-to-iso.sh

Alternatives

• ddrescue -n -b 2048 $DEVICE "$SCRATCH/$NAME.iso" "$SCRATCH/$NAME.mapfile"
• dvdbackup -i "${device}" -o "${SCRATCH}" --mirror --name="${NAME}"
• mkisofs -V "${NAME}" -dvd-video -udf -o "${SCRATCH}/${NAME}.iso" "${SCRATCH}/${NAME}"

Prior Art

This repository was generated for the sake ofarchiving the work of the python-dvdvideo repos that seem to be abandoned (or at least not recently maintained) from what I can tell.

• https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/waldi/python-dvdvideo.git
• https://gitlab.com/waldi/python-dvdvideo
• https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python3-dvdvideo
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-dvdvideo

Typically ddrescue works for me when I need to back up an old family video DVD, but in some cases it fails. I've found the python-dvdvideo scripts to be more reliable in those cases.