Burning data DVD's?

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:10:40PM -0600, Laurence Sanford wrote:
> I searched the list archives and couldn't find anything specifically
> about burning DVD's. I was wondering if the burncd utility will burn
> data DVD's as well for archiving purposes and such. If not, is there
> something similar that will do the job? It looks like it would be hard
> to beat the cost effectiveness of backing up on DVD.
>

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html

may help you.  dump(8) coming with 5.3-R offers you a useful -P option
that allows the use with growisofs for backups on DVDs.

Marc