On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > 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. > > But anyone can google and get a list of programs and procedures. ... In this case, not according to another poster. > ... When > you ask on a mailing list you get (and should expect) collective > experience instead. You can still choose to ignore the advice, but > don't discount its value. When people who have tried it say "don't do > that" learning the same from your own experience is the hard way to go. It's possible that someone claimed to have tried it. I might have missed it. The apparent value of advice is diminished when the giver makes an assumption the the recipient believes false. > > 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. > > For 1TB of data - there's no reason good enough. I don't like the idea either, but I'm not the OP. I'd want a lot of DVD-writers. For all I know the OP has them or is willing to get them. What is the answer if he needs a write-once medium? > For the 2nd round - 50GB/month, it is possible, and the brute force > approach of dragging the new files weekly into k3b would work as well as > anything and would give you disks that would let pretty much anything > access the files directly. -- 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."
