On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Lamar Owen wrote: > If someone asks about backing up 1TB of data to 4.5GB disks, I am going to > make the assumption until proven wrong that they really do know what they are > asking. Now, when or if they prove that they really didn't know what they > were asking the situation changes. But 'practicality' is in the eye of the > beholder (in which case, a 'lens' is an adroit analogy). As one of my > favorite quotes goes, 'there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.' > Or, in geekspeak, ASCII stupid question, getty stupid ANSI. Or something > like that. Having been in the position of asking "How do I do that" and being told "Don't do that", I approve. One of the unimformatives even commented on the amount of time the thread was taking. > But just suppose the OP had ready access to free or nearly free DVDs and free > or nearly free labor? Is it practical then? I can think of better reasons for insisting on DVDs. He wanted a write-once medium. He is already wrestling with a policy that requires CDs and might even have been sensible when it was enacted. He wanted protection from EMP. He wanted, on general principles, a medium different in kind from the original. He wanted a medium different in kind from those DDS3 tapes that he couldn't read after a few years. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software."
