| I use BackupEdge and DVD+RW drives for backups on smaller workgroup/POS | servers. I love BackupEdge, have used it for more then 10 years on Unix | and now Linux servers. In my opinion DVD only makes sense as long as you | are using less than 4.7 GB. Where DVD does work, it works well. You can | set BackupEdge to make (include) a BOOTABLE, recovery DVD on every | night's backup! | | If you start talking large amounts of data, roll in the tape drives, | BackupEdge works great with those too. Even the One Touch Recovery tape | drives.
DVDs make a great backup medium when they are sized right. The new compressor in BackupEDGE 2.0 will probably allow 10GB-12GB to be stored on one piece of 4.7GB media in a typical Linux installation. Above that, I'd probably suggest tape. An optical media whitepaper discussing the five different media types and their usefulness for backup media is available at our web site. From the home page, just click on "Whitepapers". You are welcome to download evaluation copies of our products, and contact me personally if you have any questions. Regards, Tom --- D. Thomas Podnar - President [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microlite Corporation 724-375-6711 Voice 2315 Mill Street 724-375-6908 Fax Aliquippa PA 15001-2228 888-257-3343 Tollfree Sales +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Makers of BackupEDGE 2.0 - Backup and Disaster Recovery | |Software for Unix and Linux Systems - Now With Encryption| |Supports: Tape Drives, Libraries, CD/DVD Optical Media | |http://www.microlite.com ftp://ftp.microlite.com| +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
