At 12:55 2003-12-31 -0500, Wil McGilvery wrote:

I have not heard of anyone successfully using cd's for backup purposes,

but I do know of people using removable hard drives as an alternate to tape backups.

I have been using CDs for a while now. Quite frankly, the cost of writer and media was the motivating factor, and I thought that tape would be "better". However, the earlier comments here make me think maybe I made a lucky choice. The backup CDs carried me through one recovery after I hosed my system quite thoroughly, and every month or so they save me after a slip of the brain. But, now that you mention it, it *is* time to test complete recovery again. BTW, I have Windows and Linux machines at my desk. I find myself moveing more and more to the Linux box just because my Linux backup procedure is easy enough that I can run it frequently. Terry. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml