REDUMPER-GUI(1)

NAME
redumper-gui - desktop frontend for the redumper optical-disc dumper

SYNOPSIS
redumper-gui

DESCRIPTION
redumper-gui is a graphical frontend for redumper(1), the low-level disc dumper used by the Redump preservation project. It enumerates the optical drives on the system, runs a dump, streams redumper's log into the window, and afterwards compresses the log files and packs them into a submission-ready ZIP.

It takes no command-line options; everything is configured in the window.

DUMPER VERSION
The GUI is coupled to a specific redumper build: upstream bundles one and states that other versions may not be supported. This package therefore depends on redumper-rgui, a compatibility package carrying exactly that build, and invokes it directly — not whatever redumper happens to be on PATH. The rolling redumper package can be installed at the same time and is the one to use on the command line; the two do not conflict.

MPF POST-PROCESSING
If the mpf-check package is installed, the GUI runs MPF.Check on the finished dump to produce Redump submission info. It is a weak dependency: without it the dump still completes and the post-processing step is simply skipped.

DRIVE ACCESS
No root and no group membership are needed at a local desktop seat: systemd-logind(8) puts a uaccess ACL on the optical device node for the logged-in user, and the dumper binary carries the cap_sys_rawio file capability for vendor SCSI passthrough. Headless, SSH and cron sessions have no seat and therefore no ACL — they need the cdrom group or root.

FILES

~/.config/redumper-gui/
    Window layout and settings, written by the GUI.

redumper
    Inside the GUI's private program directory: a symlink to the pinned dumper the GUI executes. A second symlink, MPF.Check, points at the MPF validator and dangles harmlessly while mpf-check is not installed.

SEE ALSO
redumper(1), mpf-check(1), mpf-gui(1)

NOTES
This manpage is written and maintained by the packager; upstream ships none, and the GUI takes no command-line options, so there is no --help output a generator could work from.

The version in the header is therefore deliberately static: it records the release this text was written against (v1.0.1), not the version you have installed. Stamping the shipped version into a hand-written page would be a forgery — the header would keep claiming currency while the prose quietly aged. If your installed redumper-gui is newer than the version named above, treat this page as possibly behind.

AUTHOR
Redumper GUI is written by Deterous (https://github.com/Deterous/Redumper-GUI).