<snip> > > 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. I won't belabour this any further as it benefits nobody. But just to be clear, the OP's first posting was: "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?" He was asking people "How would you backup 1TB of data...to a set of dvds ...". And that is what many answered, how THEY would back up 1 TB of data, and then elaborated on why they would choose something other than the OP's choice of media. My only other posting directly addressing the OP in this thread was my follow up posting to him changing it from 1TB to 50GB and insisting on wanting to use DVDs. I simply suggested that he should clearly outline his needs so that people replying can better answer accordingly. In absence of the OP's reason for choosing DVDs in follow up postings, those participating in the thread with apparently some practical experience in backing data continued to offer what they believed was more practical advice (in general terms because again, the OP did not clearly state his requirements/needs, only his penchant for DVDs for which reasons for his choice eluded those trying to help him) for backing up relatively large amounts of data. With all that said and done, hopefully the OP has found a satisfactory solution among the replies he has received. Jacques B.
