Added a wiki for backing up DVDs

Decided I'd share my script with the rest of the archers.  If this is too much of a gray area I wont be offended to have it removed.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ScriptForDvdBackup

No, it's good to have wiki entries for grey areas too, thanks. (The only thing is that grey areas tend to get edited into unrecognizability... :-D)
Dusty

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