We have Rimage machines with four dvd writers and silkscreen printers. I have considered using them for this task. More for a monthly offsite archive than for daily backups.
On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:14, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/4/3 Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>: >> On 3.4.2010 0:56, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> >>> >>> The officially recommended method, for those who have no better >>> means of >>> backup than DVD and a small enough data set to make it feasible, >>> is to >>> write DVD-sized disk volumes and then burn them to DVD as a separate >>> operation. >>> >> >> This I have always wondered, and/but not tested it myself. >> >> Bacula suggests writing "parts" of 800M, because large files can >> not be >> written to a DVD. DVD movies also are made of many smaller files. >> >> How could you burn a DVD-sized disk volume, if that is the case? >> > > The suggested procedure is to create a little smaller than dvd sized > disk volumes and use your favorite dvd burning software to burn the > disk volume to dvd. Then you can erase your disk volume from disk. If > you ever need to recover files you need to first read the disk volumes > from dvd back to your disk storage partition. > > John > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
