Creating a backup of an optical disk requires generating an ISO image, a complete copy of the disk's content. You can later restore this image file to another optical disk when necessary, ensuring a dependable way to preserve your data. In Linux-based systems, you can use the dd command in the terminal to easily clone your optical disks.
Before backing up your optical disks, you need to determine the size of the optical media and verify that there is enough available space in your target location.
$ dmesg | egrep -i 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer' [ 6.834672] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 1x/1x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 6.835440] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
$ fdisk -l /dev/sr0 Disk /dev/sr0: 748 MiB, 784334848 bytes, 382976 sectors Disk model: VMware SATA CD01 Units: sectors of 1 * 2048 = 2048 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 2048 bytes / 2048 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 2048 bytes / 2048 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x73a9f942 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sr0p1 * 0 1531903 1531904 2.9G 0 Empty /dev/sr0p2 1215132 1222619 7488 14.6M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
$ df -h /home/user/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 20G 5.2G 14G 28% /
$ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/user/cdimage.iso status=progress 757838336 bytes (758 MB, 723 MiB) copied, 24 s, 31.6 MB/s 1531904+0 records in 1531904+0 records out 784334848 bytes (784 MB, 748 MiB) copied, 24.5369 s, 32.0 MB/s
$ md5sum /dev/sr0 /home/user/cdimage.iso 9a659c92b961ef46f5c0fdc04b9269a6 /dev/sr0 9a659c92b961ef46f5c0fdc04b9269a6 /home/user/cdimage.iso
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