At 02:03 PM 5/10/2001, David Freeman wrote:
All,
I am thinking it may be a good time to start thinking about backing up the data on my HDD. I am after a cheap method and I though about getting a CDRW drive now they are sub £100. Is this a good idea?
Personally, I think it's a great idea. I do it all the time.
can I just use tar to put it all on a cdrw each week?
Yes.
What would people recommend? Will any CDRW drive work with Linux?
I don't think there are any hardware issues that would cause a problem for Linux. It's really a matter of whether your software will support the drive.
Here are a few links that might help:
CDRDOA can be found at:
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/index.html
The drives that they claim compatibility with are here:
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html
CDRecord can be found here:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/...
About 3/4 down that page are two links, one link to known supported drives and one link to known unsupported drives.
My personal preference would be to use a SCSI Plex or Yamaha drive. I would choose SCSI over IDE because the IDE drives appear to be a bit more fault prone than SCSI drives. Furthermore, Yamaha and Plex seem to be the standards for which this software is written.
Here's some other stuff that you might find of interest:
You can find many Linux CD-Burner GUI front-ends on TuCows:
http://linuxberg.eunet.fi/x11html/sys_cdr.html http://linuxberg.eunet.fi/kdehtml/sys_cdr.html http://linuxberg.eunet.fi/gnomehtml/sys_cdr.html
A side-by-side comparison of many of them can be found here:
http://sites.inka.de/~W1752/cdrecord/frontend.en.html