how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

[Steven Stern]

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On 02/09/2008 11:51 AM, Jacques B. wrote:
| On Feb 9, 2008 12:46 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>
wrote:
|> How would you backup 1TB of data in a server with 4x 250GB drives all
|> mounted as separate mount points to a set of dvds using tools
|> available in fedora, centos or rhel?
|>
|> Thank you in advance,
|> Valent.
|
| 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

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~  Steve
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