From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 16:49:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1DFB37B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:49:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 642 invoked by uid 100); 15 Jan 2001 00:49:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14946.18704.496337.428686@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:49:20 -0600 (CST) To: Ken Seggerman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD WR viable backup? In-Reply-To: <29095399@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Seggerman types: > Just wondering if a CD read-write drive is a viable backup solution before > going out and buying a tape drive. cd's make lousy backup media - the writers are a bit slow, and the disks are small. On the other hand, they make a pretty good archival media. What I do is backup to disk (a jazz), and then archive the backups to cd. When the incremental backups quit fitting two to a cd, I do level 0s - which also get archived to cd. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message