On Saturday 09 February 2008, Jacques B. wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 9:48 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday 09 February 2008, Craig White wrote: > > > 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 was up to the OP to decide, not the folks on this list. Giving a > > 'well, this tool, scdbackup, will do what you want, but backing up 1TB on > > 4.5GB disks isn't really practical' is much more helpful and much less > > confrontational. No? It took me all of one minute to get the google > > string right to find this tool. > I disagree that most took the tone you suggested. I know I didn't. > The OP's question was what would you use to back up 1TB of data onto > DVDs. My response was I wouldn't do that. I would back up to another > drive. He asked for a specific tool recommendation, not a lesson in business-grade backup solutions like I would use for my pair of EMC CX3-10c's. Craig is one who answered with a specific tool that could do what the OP wanted to do. > As for you finding an answer to his question in "all of one minute" > using Google, then that begs the question why couldn't the OP have > done as much? I knew precisely what to search for; perhaps the OP didn't. I actually was searching for information on whether raw tar multiparts (I used to do tar multiparts to 8 inch floppies on my 70MB Tandy 6000 system; in fact, the OS and dev kit were distributed as tar multiparts on 8 inch floppies; 14 of them for the dev kit) would work written straight to the DVD; the link that suggested scdbackup was on page six or seven of the search results, about 45 seconds into the search or thereabouts (I read at over 1600 words per minute); a quick search on just scdbackup yielded the page. Had I not searched specifically for the tar multipart writing I would not have found it as quickly. > Good, honest, constructive debate is never a bad thing in > these situations where several viable options exists. Debate is never good if the original question is not answered to the questioner's satisfaction. The OP's later replies made if fairly obvious that he thought the advice to not be particularly useful to him. And if the thread's replies do not serve the needs of the OP they either shouldn't be replies, or they should be posts on another thread. Hrmph, he could have had his 50GB burnt to DVD's by the time this thread got good and started had he gotten a straight answer, like Craig's advice to use bacula, to begin with. -- Lamar Owen www.pari.edu
