Hello,
I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to
backing up to DVD media.
( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html )
In the "System Requirements" section, the last bullet point says :
If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to downl
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, John Drescher wrote:
> And then there is reliability. I from my own experiences I can
> easily say that DVD media is less reliable than tape but it does
> depend on several factors. I would never use RW media for a backup
That really depends on the media. CDRW is far more reli
On Saturday 07 April 2007 20:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to
> backing up to DVD media.
> ( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html )
>
> In the "System Requirements" section, the last bullet point
>
> See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a later
> version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you
> will need to check that.
Is there a certain function/feature that I can look for in version 7 to
know if it has what Bacula needs?
>
On Saturday 07 April 2007 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a
later
> > version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you
> > will need to check that.
>
> Is there a certain function/feature that
Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs.
> > Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to
> > something that holds ~800 megs?
>
> They are not reliable.
>
> Modern tape drives (excluding Travan and DDS) i.e. DLT, LTO,
On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:15, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs.
> > > Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to
> > > something that holds ~800 megs?
> >
> > They are not reliable.
> >
Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:15, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> > Do you have any pointer to reliability tests that prove what you say?
>
> No, but I imagine it is easy to obtain on the Web.
>
I'm afraid it's not. I've googled around but didn't manage to find such a
document. Only opin
>
> After having read various opinions it seems that the longest lifetime of DVDs
> comes with Taiyo Yuden DVD+R and good storage practices (no sunlight, DVDs
> kept in vertical position, little umidity, no more than 20 celsius degrees).
>
> Lucio.
>
Although I have over 7TB of archived data on LTO
