Recording into DVD-RW media
Angela Kahealani
angela at kahealani.com
Sat Aug 21 09:51:45 UTC 2004
On Friday 2004-08-20 19:35, Stewart Nelson wrote:
> IMO, if your drive supports it, you should use DVD-RAM media for
> backup.
> If you will put only one tar file on a disk, you don't even need
> a filesystem. Just do tar cf /dev/dvd <files to backup>
> Also, if your drive supports it, use DVD-RAM cartridges. That
> eliminates the need to ever touch the media, and greatly
> minimizes the chance of accidental damage.
and what clients might support it.
dump and restore also are happy to use DVD-RAM cartridges without
formatting them with filesystems...
... and DVD-RAM sustains many times the number of rewrite cycles.
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