[plug] Backups

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:

> IFAIK DVD+RW /is/ randomly rewritable, but I don't know what the driver
> and filesystem support for that is like under Linux, and it has some
> limitations that would make me reluctant to use it.

You mean the limited number of write cycles? Apparently that can be OK,
but you must mount it -noatime or it dies very fast.

See the dvd+rw-tools package documentation.
The usermode 'growisofs' program is very handy for dvd+rw.


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