how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

[Valent Turkovic]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 2008 7:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>>
>>>> | I would not.  If you factor in your time to split all that into DVD
>>>> | size chunks and then individually burn them, it's cheaper to go out
>>>> | and buy a 1 TB portable storage device and backup to it.  They aren't
>>>> | that expensive anymore.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As a matter of fact, there are some deals at Newegg today on 1 to 1.5TB
>>>> external drives
>>>>
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414+131021336&name=800GB+and+higher 
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Or, if the 1TB isn't quite full or the data will compress a bit, you can
>>> find external 750GB drives even cheaper.  I'd get a couple of these,
>>> compress the data, and rotate them offsite.
>>>
>>> http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11219355
>>>
>>
>> I asked for a backup to DVDs, I need a cheap solution for chunks of
>> 50GB every month.
> 
> Do you have cheap labor?  Otherwise DVD's are only going to be cheap if 

Labor is not an issue. Server is in my house and I can put in new blank 
dvds as needed while I do other work. I used to be a pirate so that is 
how I earned spending money when I was a kid :) Now I know better :)

> you don't have to wait for them to complete, so you'll need some disk 
> holding space to accumulate the backup contents and chunk it up into 

Space is an issue, I would prefer some way of directly burning without 
duplicating space needed for a dvd. Or one dvd a time would work also, 
but a copy of all files would not work for me.

> appropriately-sized pieces anyway.  Do you need the DVD copies in a form 
> you can directly access (if the individual files will fit that way), or 
> would a tar file chopped into pieces work?   

Best would be if files would be directly accessible but tar files would 
work also.

And are there any other
> options, like other networked machines where automated copies could be 
> done?
> 

No.

Thank you for your effort Mikesell!

Valent.