Re: Backup device:Tape vs CD-RW

From: Stan (stan@plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 01/21/03 

From: Stan <stan@plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:01:19 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:44:38 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
> He's got a point. Many folks don't bother doing full system backups these
> days, and the size of the drive is irrelevant. It's the size of the *dump*,
> and if you just keep your desired data, you can shrink the dumps to a more
> reasonable size (CD-R or CD-RW is quite cheap and quite stable).

and you can of course buy a DVD-RW drive for convenient dumps of
around 4GB (DVD-R media is about 50p per disk so a friday night
archive works quite well) I've heard that DVD-RW disks aren't that
reliable, can anyone comment?