how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:33 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:57:26 -0500
> > Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> One terabyte divided by 8 gigabytes per double-layer DVD comes out to 125 
> >> DVDs per backup.
> >>
> >> Are you out of your freaking mind?
> > 
> > I actually used to back up my BBS system to about that many floppy disks, using
> > FastBack Plus.
> > 
> 
> You see, there are some of us who don't have money or don't want to give 
> it and are willing to find a different solution :)
> 
> Sometimes a bigger (expensive) hammer is not the answer :)

I think that the point that is being made is that the cost of the
optical media and your time is going to exceed the cost of an additional
hard-drive. Plus, as is being pointed out, the integrity of your backups
are easily lost with just one scratch on the surface. 

I know. I tried doing this and have lost several batches of backup from
one scratch on the dvds. I'm still angry at myself about it. So, unless
you have a source of free blanks, the cost is there. I think K3b will
create data disks. You might check that out. Ric

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