[geeks] DVD based backup software

[Francois Dion]

On 8/22/06, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:28:28AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > The current version of bacula can do that.
> > http://www.bacula.org/
> > The specific portion of the manual is:
> > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
>
> Yes, but will it *span across multiple DVDs*, for jobs > 4.3G?
>
> Thanks for the pointer..
>
> Bill

It would be interesting to check with whoever is in charge of those
backups, but on the cdrecord page it is mentionned:
"ESO, the owner of the world's largest supertelescope, now uses
cdrecord-ProDVD for CD-R and DVD-R creation.
See the VLT archive project for additional information on DVD-R usage
for scientific archives
Starting in autumn 2000 for real work, ESO writes 50GB of data each
day to DVD-R media. This keeps a single DVD-R drive busy for more than
12 hours per day."
www.eso.org
On their IT page, it says: 	   Send comments to < itmgr at eso.org >

Might want to ask how they are using beside cdrecord to do the
automatic split across multiple dvds.

Francois