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Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW
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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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