Burn the contents of a directory to dvd without needing a gui application 

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J -pad /path/to/dir

August 14, 2011 — bashoneliners

Explanation

Useful if you have a directory full of data to burn to DVD without using a GUI. The growisofs tool is in the "dvd+rw-tools" package in Ubuntu, install it with: sudo apt-get install dvd+rw-tools

command-line data-backup