On 3.4.2010 19:14, John Drescher wrote:
> 2010/4/3 Jari Fredriksson <jarif AT iki DOT fi>:
>> On 3.4.2010 0:56, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The officially recommended method, for those who have no better means of
>>> backup than DVD and a small enough data set to make it feasible, is to
>>> write DVD-sized disk volumes and then burn them to DVD as a separate
>>> operation.
>>>
>>
>> This I have always wondered, and/but not tested it myself.
>>
>> Bacula suggests writing "parts" of 800M, because large files can not be
>> written to a DVD. DVD movies also are made of many smaller files.
>>
>> How could you burn a DVD-sized disk volume, if that is the case?
>>
> 
> The suggested procedure is to create a little smaller than dvd sized
> disk volumes and use your favorite dvd burning software to burn the
> disk volume to dvd. Then you can erase your disk volume from disk. If
> you ever need to recover files you need to first read the disk volumes
> from dvd back to your disk storage partition.
> 

Yes... But I'll stick with the ancient 2.0.2, as it works quite
painlessly, and is easy to manage. No manual twiddling, only changing
disc when asked. I have 100 DVD+RW discs, and they can handle about one
year, I have now second year going with these. Works find, if hardware
works. Two DVD-writers died, but they are cheap to replace.

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