> a> Ok, I gave up of doing DVD writing by Bacula.
> FYI, I've been doing it for 2 years or so; once it was up and running
> it works fairly well.

Good to know. In fact I just gave up for a moment. I have to replace  
my backup script, and it have to be a professional solution, so that  
another guy won't need to learn about my personal script, for example  
if I die or get fired.


> a> I'm not confident about using removable usb disk because it's not a
> a> safe made media. Of course DVD too, but I think DVDs are more reliable
> a> than usb disk, there isn't electricity to read the data.
> DVDs are likely less reliable than any form of external disk.

Are you sure about that?

I'm not using DVD-RW, just DVD-R.

I burn a huge amount of DVD-R for the full backup (every six month)  
and one DVD-R per week for the incremental backup (the DVD is burned  
daily and at Friday I replace the media).

I feel more comfortable knowing that DVD-R doesn't use electricity to  
read the data.

Ok, tape does, but tapes are made to safe data storage.

DVDs are made to mass data distribution. USB data sticks are made just  
to move data from a place to another.

These two cases are less reliable in its concepts, but I think because  
DVDs doesn't use electricity or any other mechanical/electronic stuff,  
they can be more reliable.

I really don't know. If you have a strong argument in favor of USB  
data sticks, please, tell me, burning DVDs is a terrible boring task.

[]'s
Alexander
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

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