[geeks] Backup Schemes?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 @ 09:00 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Robert Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> > So, what's your favorite ways of doing backup across your rescued  
> > systems? Each box to its own tapes, dumping to a backed-up nfs mount,  
> > tar dumps, etc?
> 
> http://www.rsnapshot.org over the network to a remote machine, and I 
> dump to DVD-Rs every now and then.

How do you handle the DVDs?

I have had a hard time finding a backup setup that can do multi-volume CD or
DVDs reliabily, or just one that works well and is pragmatically good.

I'm surprised that multi-volume burning support is so primitive, given the
lack of other good backup options at the low end.

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