On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:34 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > How would you backup [50GB] 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? > > I can't believe the arrogance of some on the list. You asked a specific > question, and people questioned your question. Yuck. ---- we all see things through our own lenses and mathematically it is impractical to consider backing up 1,000 units in 4.5 unit chunks when so many other mechanisms exist that can chunk in much larger increments. That of course ignores the time factor. Clearly it is not unusual to get the answers that he got simply because our lenses always consider practicality and his question didn't make it clear enough that he wasn't at all concerned with practicality. I did suggest bacula because I know it is capable of doing what he asked but I can't in all honesty suggest that it is a practical solution to backing up a 1 Tb of data onto DVD's. Perhaps you are confusing the notion that those who answered his question with practical assertions were demonstrating concern over the premise of practicality and not arrogance. ---- > > In any case, check out scdbackup ( > http://scdbackup.webframe.org/main_eng.html ) > and see if it does what you want. Looks like you will need to build from > source as I didn't find an F8 RPM; but, then again, I didn't search too hard, > either. > > Really people, why not try answering people's questions? He wants to backup > to DVD; while that might not be the best backup solution it is what he wants > to use. It appears that scdbackup is the tool of choice for this sort of > thing. If he had wanted to know about or have a discussion about backup best > practices, he would have asked that question instead. ---- see above...and I'm not familiar with scdbackup but I am familiar with bacula, which is why I recommended it. I also note that the Cubs will win the World Series before I ever attempt to backup 1 Tb of data onto DVD's Craig
