how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Feb 10 03:33:16 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:24 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:06 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:01:00 -0500
> > Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > what are you 
> > > going to do?
> > 
> > If you're going to be removing that bearing weekly, I would be purchasing the
> > tool.  And the original question was phrased as an ongoing operation, not a
> > one-shot.
> ----
> Assuming facts not in evidence...the original question:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> But I have this feeling that Lamar will entertain us with another
> unrelated yet interesting tale.
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wait...I'll take the lead here:

http://goldengatebridge.org/research/facts.php#PaintHowOften

I note the similarity to a backup concept of 1 Tb onto 4.5 Gb DVD's to
the end to end maintenance of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Craig




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