On Fri January 9 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > IMHO, the smartest, fastest, most reliable and cheapest solution is to > use external hard disks like usb-disks. You could reuse the same disk > for more or less unlimited rw-cycles for an average lifetime of at least > around 3 years (probably much longer, since it is not in permanent use). > By the time it dies it has quite certain been much cheaper and > environment friendly than all those dvd-rws plus the burner. Current > hard disks have capacities of more than hundreds of DVD's.
I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external HD. easy to specify folders and use a file for exceptions. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org