Can *nix command dd be used to clone a hard drive to DVDs?

[vois22]

Hello -

Thanks for reading. Using linux live cd's, the dd command, and the new ntfsprogs package, I have managed to make a bit-by-bit clone of my Vista operating partition. This cloning was done to an external USB drive.

The reason I did this is so that I can reimage the Vista partition back to the internal hard drive in less than 10 minutes, instead of going through the mega-long factory restore process provided by the OEM manufacturer's restore partition.

So now I have an 8,756 MB clone sitting on the external hard drive, and I am wondering: Is there a way to now copy this 8,756 bit-by-bit to DVD media?

This would give me an optical backup of the bit-by-bit lay down, just in case I ever lost the backup partition on my USB external hard drive. Instinct tells me this is not possible because of the way optical media is read/write.

Thanks for any insights!!

[bigtomrodney]

If you output it to a file, all you need to do is burn that file to a dual layered disc. If you output it directly to an unformatted disc as the partition then you are back to square one; you will need to make an image of that outputting it to a file.