On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
If you want to put your vtapes onto CDRs, you use 700mb vtapes, and set runtapes > 1. I'm sure folks looking for truly archival storage know the implications of their choice of media. A CDR is certainly portable, and will not be unreadable within the next year or two. Heck, I can still read 3.5" floppies.. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
