Re: how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Valent Turkovic writes:

> 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?
>
> Ok, how would you backup 50GB then. Ignore 1TB. The question still stands.

RAID 1.

It might be rather difficult to convert an existing non-RAID partition to 
RAID, but that's pretty much the way to go, with large disk volumes.

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