On Monday 11 May 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: >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
Chuckle, and I am still booting from 5.25" disks on another legacy system I keep functional in the basement. And it has had some of the modern 3.5-ers retrofitted too. :) Twould be nice if I could get amanda to build on it, but neither perl nor python is available on it, just a pre-89 C, a truebasic lookalike, pascal, early 4th, and my fav, assembly. My foot prints are in the OS for it too. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Fats Loves Madelyn.
