[plug] Good Tape Backup Software for Linux

[Matthew Tippett]

One idea that I think would work reasonably well is using CD-R.

As I have said it is only a thought, there are lots of things
that may not work about it.

Basically you do an incremental dump to a CD-R, either using dump
or building a temporary copy of changed files.  Then using
mkisofs + cdwrite (or whatever) who write it to a CD-ROM.

Although the max space is about 650MB, at $2-5 a CD-R it is a
cheap way of doing it.  If you don't want to browse the system
live you could incrementaly write compressed tgz files.

I am not a guru in CD-R but I think you can use the multi-session
feature of most CD-R drives to write multiple times to a CD-R.

Cheers,

Matt