On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jacques B. wrote: > 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? also, do you really need to back up all 1TB? i guess if it really is pure "data", then, yes. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
