On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:42:10 +0200 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > > Since this thread on this interesting problem (really!) already grows > quite large and I'm sure there will be lots of interesting suggestions > and solution, would you mind posting a summary on your findings? Maybe > even putting online into a wiki or similar? I thought the concensus was, if you have 1TB of data to back up then don't do it with DVD's. You don't need a wiki page to post one sentence: "Don't do that with a volume of data that large because it's both impractical and unreliable." -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com