On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, John Drescher wrote:
And then there is reliability. I from my own experiences I can
easily say that DVD media is less reliable than tape but it does
depend on several factors. I would never use RW media for a backup
That really depends on the media. CDRW is far more
On Saturday 07 April 2007 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a
later
version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you
will need to check that.
Is there a certain function/feature that I can
On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:15, Lucio Crusca wrote:
Kern Sibbald wrote:
Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs.
Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to
something that holds ~800 megs?
They are not reliable.
Modern tape
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:15, Lucio Crusca wrote:
Do you have any pointer to reliability tests that prove what you say?
No, but I imagine it is easy to obtain on the Web.
I'm afraid it's not. I've googled around but didn't manage to find such a
document. Only opinions
After having read various opinions it seems that the longest lifetime of DVDs
comes with Taiyo Yuden DVD+R and good storage practices (no sunlight, DVDs
kept in vertical position, little umidity, no more than 20 celsius degrees).
Lucio.
Although I have over 7TB of archived data on LTO2
Hello,
I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to
backing up to DVD media.
( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html )
In the System Requirements section, the last bullet point says :
If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to
On Saturday 07 April 2007 20:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to
backing up to DVD media.
( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html )
In the System Requirements section, the last bullet point says :
See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a later
version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you
will need to check that.
Is there a certain function/feature that I can look for in version 7 to
know if it has what Bacula needs?
I
