On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:33:24AM -0600, John Reese wrote: > John J. Trammel writes: > >> Have you considered using tape backups? I know the volume-spanning >> problem has been resolved with that medium. Or just get >8 Gb tapes. > > There are a couple of reasons I would prefer an optical disc solution > to magnetic tape, but neither are so compelling that I simply could > not try to use tape. I think there would be some interesting issues > restoring the whole OS to a blank hard drive using tape, but I know it > can be done. It's just a lot easier to do it from optical disk, either > CD or DVD, and I'm a lazy guy. > > Does Symantec Ghost support DVD and ReiserFS? Just curious. Yes and no. I am also pretty sure Ghost supports spanning volumes. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list