[TriLUG] DVD-RW Recommendations

[Chris Hedemark]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Jay Barrett wrote:

> I want to backup a two 2GB files on a weekly basis from my NAS (RH7.3) 
> and
> was thinking about using a DVD-RW.  Anybody have a positive experience 
> and
> care to recommend a product?

Optical media is slow, limited capacity and not terribly robust.  Got a 
MiniDV camcorder?  You can use that for higher capacity backups (see 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvbackup/?topic_id=125%2C137 for more 
info).  Basically you can stream about 3.6MBps (note the big B not a 
little "b").  You can fit in the neighborhood of 10GB of raw 
uncompressed data on there.

Chris Hedemark
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