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?


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