RE: Backup to DVD

> > To me, that's a compelling reason to begin looking at DVD backup 
> > options for e-smith.  Has anybody put any thought/effort into 
> > something like that?  Do you know of any packages for Linux 
> that has 
> > support for DVD burning?  I'll start doing some research, but if 
> > anybody has already done some foot work, pointers would be 
> much appreciated.
> 
> I've had an initial look at BackupEdge - www.microlite.com - 
> which looks very good. It can span backups across media, do 
> incrementals, schedules, etc. It can also build bootable 
> DVDs/CDs/tapes (if you have the right type of tape drive) 
> which can do a "bare-metal" recovery. I haven't had time to 
> test that feature in detail.
> 
> Gordon

I have used BackupEdge to DVD and it works quite well.  Still doesn't make
much sense to me to backup to a media that requires changing as often as CD
or DVD.  Hard to do a 30-40 gig backup that way.  

I guess if you have a limited amount of data that DVD would make sense.

-jeff


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