Can I burn a DVD-R to copy my MacBook Pro? It is going to the Mac hospital.

Can DVD-Rs be used to backup my MacBook Pro?

I agree with Kurt Lang, but I would add
... where cloning means using a utility such as SuperDuper (free for a full clone), or Carbon Copy Cloner (also an excellent cloning utility), or using Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility and tell it to restore from the boot disk to the external disk.
Personally I would go with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, as they are easier to use and have proved themselves to be excellent utilities (I own both).  If money is an issue and this is just a one time being safe clone, then choose SuperDuper as making a full clone, which is what you are doing, is free with SuperDuper (SD makes their money when you buy the software to make incremental updates to a clone; increments take a lot less time, so are well worth the cost of the package is you are going to use it as a regular backup package).
However, if you only have a few files in your home directory you want to save (like under 5GB), then you could burn a DVD.
But if you do not already have an external backup device, then it is time to start thinking about it, as disks fail, and after you loose data is the wrong time to start thinking about regular backups.

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