Re: DVD Archive

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

Tom,

Look here for a writeup of a first rate archive system
http://archive.eso.org/VLT-SciArch/VLT-SciArch-Overview.html

These guys are using "cdrecord" to burn the DVD-ROMs.  Your
"xcdroast" is really a GUI fron end to cdrecord as are all the
other graphical UNIX/Linux CD programs.  

ESO writes 50GB/day to DVD.
using this software.
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/





--- Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I notice that one can now buy DVD-R disks as low as $0.58.  This
> beats 
> CD-Rs at $0.18 which is the best price that I have paid, but not
> recently.
> 
> DVDs are better for me in that one will hold a whole night's worth of
> data 
> for a telescope, so it makes for easier archiving.  At the moment I
> am 
> writing last night's data to CDs and there are 8 to write.  So there
> is not 
> much one can do between putting disks in the slot and labels on the 
> finished ones.  (I generally do e-mail as I am doing now) So the
> write 
> process takes a couple of hours during which time there is little
> else that 
> I can do.
> 
> With a DVD I could just start the write process after taking a
> night's 
> data.  With a good data examination program (I am working on it) I
> could 
> then just start running and write everything to DVD.  Then the
> analysis 
> program could sort out what is good.  OK, I stll believe in doing
> some 
> looking at the data as it goes by, but in the future this should be
> more 
> and more automated.
> 
> Does any one have experience with writing data to DVDs?
> 
> Under Windows?
> Under Linux?
> Is there something like xcdroast for DVDs?
> 
> How about the archival life of the DVD?  Does anyone know of archival
> testing?
> 
> I have a stock of 1000+ CDs, when they run out would seem to be about
> the 
> right time (8 months from now?) to switch over to DVDs.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> 


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