Re: DVD Arrays (was Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?)

2004-09-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Frank Smith wrote: If your needs can be handled by a few DVDs, the easiest way to implement it might be to use Amanda's file driver and then burn that to DVD. What about cdrw-taper? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert

DVD Arrays (was Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?)

2004-09-08 Thread Justin Gombos
* Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-24 18:03]: Hi, i'm using a dvd+-rw device for archiving my vdr-recordings. you don't need to by cdrecord-DVDpro, there is a tool called growisofs out there. It handles dvd+ and dvd- correct, it is free, and AFAIK it handles the various versions

Re: DVD Arrays (was Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?)

2004-09-08 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, September 08, 2004 16:15:06 -0600 Justin Gombos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christoph Scheeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-24 18:03]: Hi, i'm using a dvd+-rw device for archiving my vdr-recordings. you don't need to by cdrecord-DVDpro, there is a tool called growisofs out

Re: DVD Arrays (was Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?)

2004-09-08 Thread Jonathan Dill
Good points. For small backups, I think that removable firewire / USB 2.0 drives would be a more economical and convenient option, using FILE-DRIVER to write vtapes onto the removable drives. I still think DVDs are more suited to archival backups of a few GB where you plan to store and

Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?

2004-06-24 Thread Christoph Scheeder
Hi, i'm using a dvd+-rw device for archiving my vdr-recordings. you don't need to by cdrecord-DVDpro, there is a tool called growisofs out there. It handles dvd+ and dvd- correct, it is free, and AFAIK it handles the various versions of buffer-underrunprotection automagically. Christoph Gene

Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?

2004-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off. I hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full when I got X running again, which had died due to my changing the default prompt in bash, which in turn screwed up the X startup, it would get to

Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?

2004-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 13:56:27 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all; I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off. I hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full when I got X running again, which had died due to my

Re: Is anyone using a dvd drive yet?

2004-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 14:30, Frank Smith wrote: --On Wednesday, June 23, 2004 13:56:27 -0400 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all; I'm back from a week out in Nebraska, getting a son married off. I hope that you didn't get too many bounces as my mailbox was full when I