[wplug] low-level cd backup

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May bgtrio at yahoo.com assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Does anyone know of a good cd copying program for linux that will do 
| low-level copying rather than just an iso image?  I'd like to make backups 
| (really!) of some of my game cd's that will still work if the original 
| gets scratched/whatever.  Many of these cd's unfortunately have copy 
| prevention that makes it difficult to make backups.

dd?

# dd if=/dev/hdc of=/tmp/file.img

where hdc is the device for your cdrom drive


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