Re: [OT] large tape backup

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've not played with backup to DVD yet, but I believe it's possible to
write a raw datastream to a disc, so I think I'd probably take the
approach of building a second PC with a few hundred GB of disk in and
a DVD burner.  The disk could then be used as an on-line backup.  For
offline backup the data archived into into DVD-sized chunks and burnt
to DVDs one at a time.  That way if a single DVD failed you'd just have
to reburn that DVD.

James