Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I think it isn't important how many blocks are on the DVD, but more > important that a) all files area readable on the DVD and b) are MD5 > identically with the original on the hard disk. That's why after burning > a tree of files for backup

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-24 Thread Eitan Adler
> I think it isn't important how many blocks are on the DVD, but more > important that a) all files area readable on the DVD and b) are MD5 > identically with the original on the hard disk. That's why after burning > a tree of files for backup to some DVD I use a combination of > find+md5+sort+diff

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 23, 2010 a las 03:23:26PM -0700, Doug Hardie escribió: > I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to > create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, > at that point I want to verify that the write was successful. I tr

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 May 2010, at 15:31, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 24/05/2010 1:23 π.μ., Doug Hardie wrote: >> I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to >> create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, >> at that point I want to verify that the wr

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 24/05/2010 1:23 π.μ., Doug Hardie wrote: > I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to > create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, > at that point I want to verify that the write was successful. I tried using > dd to read back in

Verifying a DVD

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, at that point I want to verify that the write was successful. I tried using dd to read back in the DVD to a file. Its interesting that the bs par