2010/4/3 Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users