DVD RW / CD RW

culley · 10-21-2004, 07:43 AM

I have Fedora 2 installed and Iḿ looking for a good DVD RW / CDRW combo to do backups to. Can anyone recommend one. Does anyone have this combo (Fedora and DVDRW CDRW) on their systems. What program do you use to do the writing / backup. I would like something that is more or less automated (cron) but that is user friendly (gui). Thanks for your help.

ilikejam · 10-21-2004, 10:52 AM

Hi.

Very nearly any normal (internal IDE) CDRW/DVDRW drive will work perfectly. Buy a cheaper drive and spend a bit on decent media (especially for backups). I'm using a no-name DVD-/+RW drive on Fedora 2, and I've never burned a coaster yet (my choice of cheap media has caused me problems though...).

k3b is quickly becoming (has become?) the favourite GUI app for burning CDs and DVDs. There's no cron-like features, though. I used to use a script I put together myself for doing automated backups, but it had no GUI.

Dave