Les Mikesell wrote:
Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Feb 9, 2008 7:34 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
| I would not. If you factor in your time to split all that into DVD
| size chunks and then individually burn them, it's cheaper to go out
| and buy a 1 TB portable storage device and backup to it. They aren't
| that expensive anymore.
As a matter of fact, there are some deals at Newegg today on 1 to 1.5TB
external drives
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414+131021336&name=800GB+and+higher
Or, if the 1TB isn't quite full or the data will compress a bit, you can
find external 750GB drives even cheaper. I'd get a couple of these,
compress the data, and rotate them offsite.
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11219355
I asked for a backup to DVDs, I need a cheap solution for chunks of
50GB every month.
Do you have cheap labor? Otherwise DVD's are only going to be cheap if
Labor is not an issue. Server is in my house and I can put in new blank
dvds as needed while I do other work. I used to be a pirate so that is
how I earned spending money when I was a kid :) Now I know better :)
you don't have to wait for them to complete, so you'll need some disk
holding space to accumulate the backup contents and chunk it up into
Space is an issue, I would prefer some way of directly burning without
duplicating space needed for a dvd. Or one dvd a time would work also,
but a copy of all files would not work for me.
appropriately-sized pieces anyway. Do you need the DVD copies in a form
you can directly access (if the individual files will fit that way), or
would a tar file chopped into pieces work?
Best would be if files would be directly accessible but tar files would
work also.
And are there any other
options, like other networked machines where automated copies could be
done?
No.
Thank you for your effort Mikesell!
Valent.
