On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:04, Ian L wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 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.
>
You can burn to dvd, but don't do it over a network. rsync or copy all the files you want to backup to a directory on your machine, then burn from there.
> 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. >
Why not buy 3 200 Gig IDE drives and backup to a RAID 5 array? Total cost would be less then a burner and 6 months worth of DVDs.
actually, i already suggested something similar ... couple of fat swapable hard drives. but for some reason i dont understand that idea was rejected.
> 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?
>
The answer is you can, but do you really want to do this?
well it seems better then using tape backup to me, since the hard drive back up idea was rejected.
ian
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