On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:27:29PM EST, Brian McKee wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd just by DVD-R in bulk and shred them as required. The reason I chose rewritables is that I was trying to find some way I could do backups w/o any manual intervention & w/o acquiring expensive hadrdware. Stick a DVD+RW in there & add a growisofs command to the backup script, overwrite the stuff that was written the night before .. change to a new DVD every month. > If you insist on being enviromentally friendly, I was given a set of > labels and marker that were specifically made to do just that. Stick > the label on the dvd and the marker was some sort of dry erase that > didn't seem to smudge much.... Thanks, I was hoping s/o would come up with an altogether different solution. My handwriting embarrassing .. there are times when I can't read it myself. So you're saying I could actually stick a label on the DVD and not risk frying the burner? > Came from Staples I think - but you said you weren't in NA.... Never said that.. right now, I live in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. Thanks, I'll check out the Staples next to where I work. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
