On Monday 11 May 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb AT imparisystems DOT 
>com> 
wrote:
>> I'm doing some pro bono work for our local Boys and Girls Club and
>> helping them set up a server.  We're using Amanda for a backup and
>> trying to back everything up to a CDR.  I thought there was a device for
>> it or a cdrtaper utility or something.  I've tried googling it, but no
>> luck and was hoping someone might know...
>
>I think you're looking for this:
>  http://www.tivano.de/software/amanda/Installation.shtml
>
>I *seriously* doubt the thing works anymore, though.  I contacted the
>authors a while back to see if they were interested in writing a
>"CD-RW Device" and the answer was not quite "NO", but I doubt there's
>been any work done.
>
>This would be a good project for someone with a bit of familiarity with C.
>
>Dustin

Most backup sessions result in outputs that would handily exceed the 700mb of 
a cdr, so it would be a nice coding exercise but far more expensive than a 
commodity hard drive.  Mine even exceed a dual layer dvd, so I've never made 
the investment in the disks to try it.  Other situations might be more 
amenable I suppose, but the utility of truly archival storage and cdr in the 
same sentence would seem to be an oxymoron since some cd formats go away well  
before their time.

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