How to backup DVD with dvdbackup?

[O-pos]

Hello.

I have installed dvdbackup but don't know how to specify the target dvd as an input. when I just type dvdbackup in terminal, it does not work. Any ideas?

[kostkon]

Just give

man dvdbackup

to see the available options or you can check the man page here.

You'll have to specify your DVD drive, in most cases giving /dev/dvd will work, i.e.:

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd

[O-pos]

My dvd is in /media/cdrom0

I tried and neither dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd nor dvdbackup -i /media/cdrom0 works, I get the same output:

Usage: dvdbackup [OPTION]...
-h, --help display this help and exit
...etc & etc

[kostkon]

My dvd is in /media/cdrom0

I tried and neither dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd nor dvdbackup -i /media/cdrom0 works, I get the same output:

Usage: dvdbackup [OPTION]...
-h, --help display this help and exit
...etc & etc

Quoting from the man page

# Option notes
-i is mandatory
-o is mandatory except if you use -I
-a is option to the -F switch and has no effect on other options
-s and -e should preferably be used together with -t

It's obvious that you get this output because you don't use all the mandatory options. A right call of the application could be something like this

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -o ~/mydvdbackup