On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:28:22AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:04:19AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > What's wrong with incremental tar/dump burned onto a CD/DVD? > > You didn't read on, did you. I did multi-volume tar backups with the > CDROM as a block device. Trying to create the table of contents by > sequentially scanning each CD is a very large PITA. If you have plenty > of time on your hands and don't mind rescanning in the case of random > scanning problems, go for it. > > Use CDROM's, but make sure your backup plan EXCLUDES multi-volume tar > archive backups with the CDROM as a block device. Instead, use tarball > FILES no larger than ONE CD worth of data, compressed or not. You didn't read my first message. I said "less than 4 GB/day" - meaning less than a DVD-R a day. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020529/ab2d49ac/attachment.pgp