I was wondering what the general opinion was on using a dvd burner in a windows machine to backup some directories/files on 2-3 redhat servers? I was thinking i could just mount the relevant directories using samba, and then just burn them directly to the dvd, or tar them up first and then burn the tar file.
My personal machine is a win2k3 server. So it wouldnt be a pain for me to feed it 2-4 disc's to complete the backup while i'm sitting in front of it.
i was thinking of going with a dvd burner for a few reasons:
1. cheaper then a tape drive 2. faster then a tape drive 3. media is cheaper then tape media and lasts longer 4. i can read the media in any dvd drive.
At this point the only reason i wouldnt go with this is if there is some technical limitation with this setup that i'm not aware of. Anyone have any feedback on this?
thanks,
Ian
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