Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:16 AM, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

> DVD is a little cheaper and arguable on speed... unless we start 
> playing with
> SCSI3 DLTS and even then, the cost is steap there... a DVDRW is about 
> $300
> and media as cheap as $5 a disk, for 4.5G uncompressed.  Where a DLT 
> is about
> 40G for ~$50-$70 and the drive itself is over $1k...

Don't overlook older tape technologies.

DLT III has a lower capacity than DLT IV, but nobody wants them so the 
drives are cheap on eBay and the media is also cheaper.

The media isn't as cheap as DVD-RW but (1)you don't need to erase DLT 
before using it and (2)the media is a lot more rugged than anything 
optical (one scratch and you're done).

Chris Hedemark
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