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Author Topic: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface  (Read 11122 times)

Ralf Maximus

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The subject says it all: CommandBurner is a freeware CD/DVD burner that has a nice GUI but also accepts command lines, making it suitable for .bat file use.

http://www.commandburner.com/

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I've used it for years, as part of my nightly backup strategy.  I always keep a RW DVD in my drive, and via a .bat file I wrote, CommandBurner wakes up in the middle of the night and overwrites it with a backup archive of my most critical sourcecode and documents.  Once a week I toss the DVD into a fireproof safe, in case the worst happens. 

Call it Murphy's Law insurance: because I do this, I'll never need the disc.

Small, light, rock-solid, useful, and free... doesn't get much better than this.

tinjaw

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2007, 03:56 AM »
That's a nice tip there Ralphie. I can definitely make use of this. thanx.

Darwin

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2007, 10:36 AM »
Yes, that is a nice tip - I'll have to give this a whirl. Thanks  :Thmbsup:

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2007, 10:52 PM »
if you want to quickly burn an ISO, then try BurnCDCC, only 70k zipped with command-line support..

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http://www.terabyteu...d.com/utilities.html

« Last Edit: December 18, 2007, 10:57 PM by lanux128 »

Ehtyar

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 11:01 PM »
Nothing beats ImgBurn for burning ISOs; free, portable and endless features.

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2007, 11:20 PM »
I love ImgBurn (it's handy right-click context menu is a blessing) but I needed a command-line interface, which sadly, it lacks.

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Re: CommandBurner: Free CD/DVD Burner with Command Line Interface
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2008, 12:50 AM »
 :huh: ImgBurn doesn't have a command-line interface?! Um, maybe you should look in the readme file that comes with ImgBurn, because ImgBurn has had command-line support right from the start...

Serously though, ImgBurn has a very powerful command line syntax, allowing you to write iso files, erase discs, and burn a collection of files and folders to disc.