At 01:20 PM 7/17/02 , Tony Reina wrote: >I was thinking that some sort of DVD writing system would be good for >accessing one or two files in the backup quickly. It would probably also >complete backups faster. However, I think DVD's only hold a few Gigs on >them. Are there systems like with these features that could handle say 20 >Gigs per media?
IIRC a DVD in full goose mode can hold over 7Gbytes. Since databases typically compress very well, a DVD-R with client-side compression might do it for you. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eldorado Computing, Inc. 602-604-3100 5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400 Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3228 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])