On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David wrote: > I'm currently using CD's for backup. Has anyone any experience using DVD > for the same purpose? Is there any way to get around tar'ing so that > permissions are properly preserved on CD/DVD? Is there any reason that DVD > is a bad idea?
Simple. Lack of standards for data DVD's There's DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM and probably another one I can't remember. There's one drive by Sony which does multiple - but not all - variants SONY DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW DRU-500A Write DVD-R 4x DVD-RW 2x DVD+R 2.4x DVD+RW 2.4x CD-R 24x Read DVD 8x CD 32x Buffer 8192kb (Burn-Proof) That does what *appear* to be the 4 main DVD "standards", but who knows if they're going to win out? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
