On Feb 9, 2008 7:15 PM, Jacques B. <jjrboucher@xxxxxxxxx> 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? > > Jacques B. Ok, how would you backup 50GB then. Ignore 1TB. The question still stands. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic
