Back up means life, I don't know if DVD media is good for back up. this is my own opinion, sometimes a small crease stops reading the media totally. Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Lanza" <alf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:39 PM Subject: Backups on DVD > Hi list, > > I'm looking for a solution to backup data on a server on a monthly > basis. The amount of data to be backed up is about 20 GB. I do not have > any tape drives but have a DVD drive. I'd like to store the backups on a > few DVDs. > > I use tar to get the complete backup done. How can i split the file in > 4,7 GB. individual files and record them on DVDs? > > Is there a better way to manage backups? I'm sure there is, but don't > know :( and i haven't found any backup tool in FC3... > > I'd appreciate your help, > > Alf > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >