Paul on Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:09:18 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW


Re-writable discs seems like a good choice for daliy back-ups, but I wonder how many times they can be reused. CDs would be great for weekly and/or monthly backups. For daily use, maybe dumping or syncing with another hard drive would be enough.


Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

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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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