2008/2/9 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Valent Turkovic writes: > > > How would you backup 1TB of data in a server with 4x 250GB drives all > > mounted as separate mount points to a set of dvds using tools > > available in fedora, centos or rhel? > > One terabyte divided by 8 gigabytes per double-layer DVD comes out to 125 > DVDs per backup. > > Are you out of your freaking mind? > If a dual layer takes 10 minutes to burn (just a guess, don't own one) including time to prep the next one, it would take you 1250 minutes, or just over 20 hours of continuous burning. That doesn't factor in the time to chunk up your drive accordingly. So you'd have to be offline for at least 2 days. Your dual layers would cost you about $125. A 1TB external drive starts at around $300. Is it worth all that time & effort to try and save $175? Jacques B.
