[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Michael Mikowski]

FWIW, I would still look at disk-to-disk backup.  Check out the Bacula manual, which has a tutorial.  One could use a usb device or SATA drive, and the convenience, speed, reliability, restore times, etc. would be superior to trying to physically manage many DVDs.


Once you fill up a 1TB drive, you could probably set it in a vault and start a fresh one as a new volume.  However, you certainly would not need to swap your backup drive nearly as often as a DVD.  If my math is right, you would be swapping 100-200 DVD's before matching the capacity of a single 1TB drive.  And that is not considering the additional space for unused blocks on the DVD's.



----- Original Message ----
From: Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 12:46:54 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Compression and Archiving

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> 
> I guess I was not entirely clear. The crypt.iso is written to the disk
> using K3B's "Tools--->Burn DVD iso image ..." feature, not the create
> new data DVD feature.

When you select you encrypted blob as the iso image you will get a
warning the K3B doesn't think it is a proper ISO9660 image file. But it
will let you proceed with the burn if you insist.
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