From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 18:14:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF9814C22 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:14:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA52638; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:18:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912070218.VAA52638@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Using CD as Backup Dev In-Reply-To: <384BE903.C16CF4BC@charm.net> from Dutch Collins at "Dec 6, 1999 11:49:07 am" To: dutch@charm.net (Dutch Collins) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:18:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dutch Collins wrote, > I have been thinking of using a CD for backups. I figure a 18gig SCSI > drive and a SCSI CD make a perfect couple. So, is this practicable? An 18 GB drive can fill about 28 CDs. If you have a 8x burner, that's still well over 4 hours to write. Does your CDROM have an automated 28+ CD changer? That's a long time to sit around swapping CDs. Now, do you think that is "practicable?" -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message