[TriLUG] DVD-RW Recommendations

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:07, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Jay Barrett wrote:
> 
> > I want to backup a two 2GB files on a weekly basis from my NAS (RH7.3) 
> > and
> > was thinking about using a DVD-RW.  Anybody have a positive experience 
> > and
> > care to recommend a product?
> 
> Optical media is slow, limited capacity and not terribly robust.  Got a 
> MiniDV camcorder?  You can use that for higher capacity backups (see 
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvbackup/?topic_id=125%2C137 for more 
> info).  Basically you can stream about 3.6MBps (note the big B not a 
> little "b").  You can fit in the neighborhood of 10GB of raw 
> uncompressed data on there.

While using a MiniDV camcorder is a neat idea for a hobby Freshmeat
project, it's really just a tape drive when being used in that fashion. 
There are hundreds of tape drive models out there that are designed for
computer backup use, and many software packages that use them
effectively.  As Jason says, smaller capacity tape drives are dirt cheap
these days.   I use a 20/40 drive at $EMPLOYER which works well for our
purposes.

--Jeremy

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