A small utility for making archival copies of CDs and DVDs under Linux. It runs in a terminal, and is meant for batch operation. Enter a disc name, pop in a disc, wait, take out the disc, rinse repeat. The script will continue asking for new discs until you hit `ctrl+C`.
* **DEVICE**: The source device to image from. This will be something like `/dev/sr0` or `/dev/cdrom`.
* **TARGET**: The target directory to place images in. Each image will be named according to the name you enter for that disc.
* **--ddrescue**: Optional flag to force the script to use ddrescue, even for (potential mixed-content) CD-ROMs. Useful for recovering damaged CD-ROMs. **This flag must always be *after* the device and target!**
This is duct tape. It ties together a bunch of existing utilities to automate your imaging. There is no guarantee that it'll work, or even that it'll produce valid images (although it will certainly try). **Check the integrity of your images, if you care about your data!**
The script is quite noisy; it doesn't try to understand output from utilities, and just passes it through wholesale. All messages originating from the script itself are prefixed with `##`.
Don't be alarmed if you get mounting/unmounting/eject failures; to avoid race conditions, the script is quite aggressive in making sure everything is unmounted/ejected when necessary. If you get errors, that usually just means that the disc was *already* unmounted or ejected.