--On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 13:56:27 -0400 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all; > > I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off. I > hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full when > I got X running again, which had died due to my changing the default > prompt in bash, which in turn screwed up the X startup, it would get > to the mouse intialization, report success in the log, but hang at > that point with no further disk activity. > > Anyway, on arrival here, it appears my 2nd tape drive in as many > months is in the process of dying. > > I recently bought a DVD+-RW, drive and a 25 pack of +- media. > > While its burnt several cdr's just fine, the media I have appear to > not be compatible with cdrecord unless I buy the cdrecord-DVDPro > version from Jeorg. I probably can, the $ is not a huge problem. > > What I'd like from this group is some pointers on setting up the use > of this dvd drive as a 4.7GB tape equivalent. I'd be glad to be > somebodies "guinea pig" :-) Be sure to verify what you burn. My experience in burning data DVDs is limited to a set of 26 DVDs I made to move 120+GB of data between locations (a high latency high bandwith data transfer). Of the 26 discs, 22 were read just fine, the other 4 had read errors on parts of the discs. If I skipped over the file(s) involved I could read the remainder of the disc, but each one of those bad discs had 10s of MBs of unrecoverable data, Fortunately I was able to rsync from the original server to complete the data transfer, but that wouldn't have been possible if I had needed to do a recover from those DVDs. I don't know if it was bad media or a buffer underrun while burning, but the original burns completed without any indication of problems (xcdroast with cdrecord). YMMV, but I would be sure to do extensive testing before relying on it for backups. With video, minor data loss just results in barely noticable dropped frames or nois, but with data it can be catastophic. I would suggest running amverify on every run, at least until you build some confidence in your burning. My $.02, Frank > > -- > Cheers, Gene > There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, > jury, and ammo. > Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author > Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, > Maurice E. Heskett, > all rights > reserved. -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
