On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:04, Ian L wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering what the general opinion was on using a dvd burner in a > windows machine to backup some directories/files on 2-3 redhat servers? I > was thinking i could just mount the relevant directories using samba, and > then just burn them directly to the dvd, or tar them up first and then burn > the tar file. >
You can burn to dvd, but don't do it over a network. rsync or copy all the files you want to backup to a directory on your machine, then burn from there. > My personal machine is a win2k3 server. So it wouldnt be a pain for me to > feed it 2-4 disc's to complete the backup while i'm sitting in front of it. > > i was thinking of going with a dvd burner for a few reasons: > > 1. cheaper then a tape drive > 2. faster then a tape drive > 3. media is cheaper then tape media and lasts longer > 4. i can read the media in any dvd drive. > Why not buy 3 200 Gig IDE drives and backup to a RAID 5 array? Total cost would be less then a burner and 6 months worth of DVDs. > At this point the only reason i wouldnt go with this is if there is some > technical limitation with this setup that i'm not aware of. Anyone have any > feedback on this? > The answer is you can, but do you really want to do this? > thanks, > > Ian > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
