On 04/02/12 22:35, Paul Lewis wrote: > On 04/02/12 01:57:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >
<snipped> > > > No one seems to have suggested DVDs or BlueRay as storage medium. Is > > there a reason these do not seem to be used much? > Some people like them - I only use them for cheap off-site backups (for small sites). My reasoning being that they're slow to backup to, but mainly because they're unreliable. The nature of the format means they have several levels of redundancy built-in, but without special software you can't tell how damaged they are (you can still read them with a fair amount of damage, so you don't know how close to being unreadable they are). There's a Debian package you can use that allows you to test them (the name escapes me, I haven't used it since Etch) but you need to run it before burning the disks. Additionally - hard drives are cheap (and so are tapes). What disks are good for is Clonezilla type "boot from disk and restore from image" recovery tools - but they're restricted to systems that will fit on a single disk. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ NOTE: new update available for Debian Buttons (New button for querying Debian Developer Package):- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2d1ee0.9010...@gmail.com
