[Digikam-users] Re: Back-ups on CD/DVD with DAR (was Re: On backing up)

[Johnny]

Peter Shute <pshute at nuw.org.au> writes:

> It depends how much data you have. Backing up to more than one disk,
> let alone dozens, is very tedious.
And this is what DAR is addressing.

> If you have a lot, it's probably suitable for incremental backups, but
> finding files on incremental backups is even more tedious, as you have
> to search them all.
And this is what DAR is addressing by providing an index to use.

> As someone mentioned, 2TB external drives are getting very cheap
> now. That's the equivalent of hundreds of DVDs.
Yes, you can have several hard drives, but redundancy and
diversification is different.

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Johnny