On 1/26/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Hi
> On 1/27/2007 12:23 AM, cy tune wrote: > > Will DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM all work fine when I need multiple disks > > for each task? If a weekly backup needs 3 disks, will that be okay? > > Similarly for the other tasks. > > You mean, if you can mix the three media types? No. You can mix DVD+R > and +RW but DVD-RAM is treated differently. I didn't phrase it properly. I meant can I backup to several disks of the same type for one task? If my daily backup takes 2 DVD+R disks, is that okay? > > Is there any different setup you would recommend? I looked into tape > > drives but they are so expensive for the tapes and drives. > > The have much higher capacity, are more reliable, and more robust... I I'm not sure I would use the capacity though. It's about $8 per disk for a Verbatim double sided DVD-RAM disk (9.4 GB) in a cartridge. Going the tape route would cost far, far more wouldn't it? > prefer tape or, if offsite storage and the ability to endlessly add > storage count less than speed (and price) disk. I'm not concerned about speed of a tape vs DVD. I am price conscious at this point though. My old (unfortunate) method was a full backup every 6 months with no incremental backups. I'm now looking at using bacula for daily backups and weekly/monthly full backups. I had a tape drive on an older computer and never used it. It's capacity is so small compared to today's hard drives. It seems to me that by the time I would want to replace DVD-RAM disks, I would be ready to upgrade my tape drive to support larger capacity tapes. By the time I'm ready to replace the DVD-RAM disks, I could be buying blu-ray or hd-dvd or whatever is sufficiently cheap at the time. Let me know if any of this is wrong. :) I like the bacula manual as far as setting everything up. It looks clear how all the parts integrated and how to write a config file for each part. What's not clear is what backup media to choose and what kind of backup strategies people use. > > with the hardware verification? I'm not sure > > how to turn that on/off in Linux since it's just treated as a hard > > drive. According to the wikipedia entry, it will take about twice as > > long to write. > > Right, it takes longer and it's always on. This is not something you can > turn on or off, AFAIK. Oh okay thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
