> Wouldn't DVD be a pretty good solution for this? Perhaps they won't be > around in 10 years, but I'd count that you could find a working reader. > At that point you could read the data off and write it to whatever the > latest, most long-term media happens to be. > > Certainly better than hard drives as far as interface and longevity. >
I put DVD somewhere between hard drive and tape closer to hard drive than tape. DVDs have their own degradation problems especially with RW media. The inks degrade over time causing the data to be unreadable. I used to use DVD a little but its way too small for my backups now and also too labor intensive. I mean 40+ DVDs versus 1 tape that is autoloaded. And this does not count the time differences at writing at 30 to 40MB/s versus dvd rates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
