[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks.

[mrl]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 07:31, James wrote:
> I never trust anything to anything. The odds of recovering data from a tape
> backup set is inversely proportional to the level of desperate need of the
> files. 

:)

> I've seen RAID go away. I've seen fire wipe out replicated storage
> devices. The technology that I trust the most (but not fully) is optical,
> but backup software (that I've seen) doesn't understand writing to a DVD
> drive.

I thought there was a way (in linux, anyway) to make a DVD+RW drive work
as an extremely slow hard disk?
Also, like the other post said, couldn't you write it to a
partition-in-an-image and then burn that image?
What backup software do you use?