Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs. > > Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to > > something that holds ~800 megs? > > They are not reliable. > > Modern tape drives (excluding Travan and DDS) i.e. DLT, LTO, .. are much > more reliable, and from what I read they are more cost effective per GB.
Do you have any pointer to reliability tests that prove what you say? I'm planning some DVD backup systems and I'd like to know in advance what kind of risk I'm facing when compared to DLT or LTO solutions. Besides the DVD jukebox, I'have another project for a small LAN: another DVD backup system for a 20GB partition. The whole backup system needs to be extremely cheap, so a single DVD writer will have to suffice. My idea is to make a monthly full backup and a nightly incremental. During the daytime monthly full backup, Bacula writes a DVD and then asks via email to manually change the media: is this possibile at all with Bacula? (I guess yes, but I'm new to Bacula, so I better ask in advance). Thanks, Lucio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
