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Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW
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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:08 pm, Paul wrote:
> 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
Im hearing numbers of about 50-100 times, but at the price of media that is
still pretty good... even if it was as low as 10, that is still going to be
pretty cheap.
> and/or monthly backups. For daily use, maybe dumping or syncing with
> another hard drive would be enough.
>
See i think backing up to spinning disk is plain silly and insane, but then
again im old fashion and use to disks that crash every so often (hence the
backups). The theory behind a backup is you can put it in a closet and its
safe for a long time.... putting disks in the closet is quite expensive and
cumbersome.
i may have to play some with this, since it seems that very few people have
jumped on the backup to CDR/RW bandwagon so far...
cheers
--ian reinhart geiser
> 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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