At 01:20 PM 7/17/02 , Tony Reina wrote:
>I was thinking that some sort of DVD writing system would be good for
>accessing one or two files in the backup quickly. It would probably also
>complete backups faster. However, I think DVD's only hold a few Gigs on
>them. Are there systems like with these features that could handle say 20
>Gigs per media?
IIRC a DVD in full goose mode can hold over 7Gbytes. Since databases
typically compress very well, a DVD-R with client-side compression might
do it for you.
-crl
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