On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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 > > Ok, the server is 1TB but actually only 50GB of personal pictures need > to be backed up. And I need a solution that burns to multiple dvds. > > No tapes and no hard drives. ---- bacula can back up to DVD's http://www.bacula.org Craig
