| From: | "Chad R(dot) Larson" <clarson(at)eldocomp(dot)com> |
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| To: | reina(at)nsi(dot)edu (Tony Reina), pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions? |
| Date: | 2002-07-17 22:35:38 |
| Message-ID: | 4.2.2.20020717153404.00a8a690@ecint.ecinet.com |
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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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Chad R. Larson (CRL22) chad(at)eldocomp(dot)com
Eldorado Computing, Inc. 602-604-3100
5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400
Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3228
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