On Friday 2004-08-20 19:35, Stewart Nelson wrote: > IMO, if your drive supports it, you should use DVD-RAM media for > backup. > If you will put only one tar file on a disk, you don't even need > a filesystem. Just do tar cf /dev/dvd <files to backup> > Also, if your drive supports it, use DVD-RAM cartridges. That > eliminates the need to ever touch the media, and greatly > minimizes the chance of accidental damage. and what clients might support it. dump and restore also are happy to use DVD-RAM cartridges without formatting them with filesystems... ... and DVD-RAM sustains many times the number of rewrite cycles. -- Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice; UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/
