[PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW

[Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@yahoo.com>]

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Greetings
	I have been looking at backup restore solutions since my old 150Mb tapes are 
not cutting it any more.  I am looking for differential backups of about 
25Gigs of data with a full backup once a week and backing up only changed 
data once a night.

	I have been very interested in using CD-RWs because the media is dirt cheap 
and so are the CDRW drives.  I found one with decent speed for about $39 at 
Staples today.  I did a short look on freshmeat and google and there are a 
ton of dumping solutions for CD, but the only one that I found that came 
close was http://dar.linux.free.fr.  Has anyone used that before?  Is tape 
still the way to go for backups?  A dvd-rw is cheaper than a DLT and can back 
up almost 8gigs compressed data.  CDRW can do 1.2Gig compressed on media that 
is less than 5cents a disk in bulk... 

	 Has anyone looked into this before?  Or am I looking at a plug presentation 
here ;)

	Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser
	
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