Backing up DVDs
Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 72 wordsDVD ripping is one thing, but sometimes you want to just copy the whole DVD to your hard drive.
DVD ripping is one thing (and Handbrake is the tool I have been mostly using for that). But sometimes you want to just copy the whole DVD to your hard drive. On Ubuntu Linux, my preferred software for this is dvdbackup .
dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -o ~ -MThe software works perfectly, even though it was last updated in 2012. But hey, the DVD specs have not changed for the last 20 years!