We have Rimage machines with four dvd writers and silkscreen  
printers.  I have considered using them for this task. More for a  
monthly offsite archive than for daily backups.


On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:14, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 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.
>
> John
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