USB drives? Scratch proof, more heat resistant. On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:48 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > I'm wondering if people could give me suggestion about the most economical > ways to archive data more permanently. Often time we want to clean up some > harddrive from machines in our offices, and we want to archive the data first > before we wipe it out, just in case we need them in the future, though > unlikely. What's the best way to do this in cases like that ? I am talking > about 20GB - 75GB size data maybe. > > What I've done so far is just tar-bzip2-ed all the files and directory to a > single .tar.bz2 file. Then I am planning to use 'split' to split it and then > write them to like CD or DVD, but this could easily takes many discs. Are > there any other more economical ways ? > > Thank you for any help. > > RDB >
