Re: how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?

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Robert L Cochran wrote:

I asked for a backup to DVDs, I need a cheap solution for chunks of
50GB every month.
Even then reliability of media and writers is likely not going to make you happy. Dual layer is tempting but the reliability of those is even worse than regular media. You haven't said anything about the type of data you have. How well does it compress with bzip or 7zip? LTO1 media are pretty reliable if you can keep the temperature at the right levels. They can be had pretty cheaply on ebay these days - 100GB a piece.
Peter.

I'm confused -- what is the advantage of using tape media (that is what
LTO-1 is, right?) over a hard disk? How does the cost compare to just
buying an external USB hard drive?

Tape media is still cheaper than hard disk and probably more reliable after sitting unused for long intervals. However you have to need a large amount of media to offset the cost of the drive (and realize that you'll need another one elsewhere if this is for disaster recovery.

DVD's might be suitable for 50 GB that doesn't change often or if you want to hand-pick the data and store in an uncompressed form that can be accessed immediately. Or if you are willing to trade a lot of time to save a little money, you could script a tar backup that gets compressed and split into dvd sized chunks, but you'd have to restore the whole mess to access anything.

If this is a standalone computer, external drives are probably going to be the best choice. If it is networked you would also have the option to schedule rsync runs to maintain copies elsewhere, or you might be able to set up something like backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ to do it automatically and use a compression an linking scheme that uses much less disk space than you would expect to keep a history of snapshots on line.

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