On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:48 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > 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. > > It is arrogant IMHO to assume that my practicality is the same as > yours, > regardless of whether it is my assumption or yours. YMMV. ---- given OP's original question... Simple arithmetic suggests to me that backing up 1 Tb would take more than 222 DVD's without compression but my guess is that most of this is digital data that won't compress very well but of course, that is just a guess. It's not much of a stretch to assume that there is a practical problem with backing up 1 Tb onto DVD's. Then there is the time factor...which I can't begin to calculate but I doubt a DVD is going to be written in much under 30 minutes. Put it another way, is there a reasonable scenario that you envision that makes it a practical option? I don't think MMV and for the record, I never assumed anything nor did I question the OP but only offered bacula as an option, undoubtedly because others had raised the issue of practicality which seemed to me to be a very reasonable question to ask. Craig
