[Gllug] Viable back-up solutions for gigabytes?

[adam at thebowery.co.uk]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 07:38:02PM +0100, Bernard Peek wrote:
> > 
> > Writeable DVD looks to be the right medium. It's simple and cheap and if 
> > the place burns down it won't take long to get compatible hardware to 
> > read the data back again. One disk can hold 8Gb of data and if your 
> > daily dynamic data is less than that you can leave a machine to do an 
> > unattended backup overnight.
> 
> Interesting.  Is that 8GB of real storage or compressed?

Storage on a single layer DVD is 4.7 Gigabytes (just be warned these are 
salemens Gigabytes so are 1000 Megabytes rather than 1024 Megabytes) so 4700
Megabytes, for a dual layer DVD you double this :)

Adam
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