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DVD Ram as Backup media?
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I have plenty of experience with DVD RAM and it is can have problems. Never tried it as a tape device though. If you can install it and get it seen in tape devices in control panel then it will work with BE, but you would be better off with a 4mm DAT. Remember a DVD is 2.6GB maximum...
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I agree, Zelandakh, currently tape offers the greatest capacity for backups and is still the only real option for a large enterprise.
Actually DVD is potentially capable of 17Gb +. The earliest report I read on this technology, back in 1994, suggested that the medium is quite capable of 48Gb using multiple layers, and a laser fitted with a re-focussing device that can read these layers.
This article is quite interesting - and shows how the technology is already stretching out to realise its full potential, whilst also demonstrating that DVD-RAM is far from being a standardised medium:
Although the existing DVD RAM drives are good, I wouldn't recommend investing in one unless you've got spare budget cash you don't know what to do with!
If you've already got one, then, as Zelandakh says, you'll need to somehow configure it as a tape device for Backup Exec to see it.
Hope this helps
Actually DVD is potentially capable of 17Gb +. The earliest report I read on this technology, back in 1994, suggested that the medium is quite capable of 48Gb using multiple layers, and a laser fitted with a re-focussing device that can read these layers.
This article is quite interesting - and shows how the technology is already stretching out to realise its full potential, whilst also demonstrating that DVD-RAM is far from being a standardised medium:
Although the existing DVD RAM drives are good, I wouldn't recommend investing in one unless you've got spare budget cash you don't know what to do with!
If you've already got one, then, as Zelandakh says, you'll need to somehow configure it as a tape device for Backup Exec to see it.
Hope this helps
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