On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Tim Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a suggestion for software for backing up large directories > to DVD? I have many Gigabtyes (more than 20) of digital photos on my OpenBSD > machine, and would like a simple method of backing the files up to several > DVDs (which I can then store offsite). > > Currently I simply copy everything to a removeable hard drive, which is a > good method, but doesn't protect my files should someone steal all my > computer gear, or there was a fire (since I can't take the removeable hard > drive off site, because I use it for other day-to-day tasks as well as > backups). > > Cheers, > > Tim. > >
I have been using bacula for several years now with mixed clients (including several openbsd machines) to tape. Bacula d2d(usb) seems like a better choice than to DVD in my opinion, including catalog, restore, encryption and other features that rival netbackup. The windows 'agent' works pretty well too. It can tend to be a little slow to restore if your catalog is amazingly large however. I believe you can choose whatever device you want to write to, cd-r , dvd etc. but i have never considered the latter as a backup medium myself. -mb
