[mdlug] Network backup options

[R Kannan]

Thanks for the advice Aaron. I will look for a desktop DVD burner. 

Stay safe.

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 14:16, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

> greenproc wrote:
> > R. Kannan wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The hard disk on my (old) desktop has become instable and I would
>  >> like to backup the linux partitions on it to DVDs.  I would like to
>  >> tar up / compress the data directly on to my laptop (through the
>  >> network) and use the DVD writer there. Is there a way to accomplish
> 
> Considering that laptop components are the most expensive of each breed,
> and that CD & DVD burning is heat intensive, and therefore, hard on the
> electronics, believe me, you do NOT want to be doing backups by burning
> DVD's with your laptop's internal DVD burner.. .you're just setting
> yourself up for a $100 component failure...which will then repeat itself
> at regular intervals.
> 
> Buy yourself a normal "desktop" DVD burner, and put it into an
> external USB 2.0 conversion kit.  You'll still burn out DVD
> burners, but
> 
> 1) it won't be the one that's INSIDE your laptop
> 
> and
> 
> 2) The full-sized DVD burner has a replacement cost at about 1/3
> that of a laptop-internal DVD burner.
> 
>  >>  that without having to NFS mount the desktop partitions to the laptop?
> 
> What is your objection, exactly, to NFS mounting your desktop filesystems
> in read-only mode for the purpose of doing backups????
> 
> It's not only the most obvious solution, it's also the most practical.
> 
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