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Automated CD/DVD Archival?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-complete-backup-system dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Our department used to use a Cedar Technologies Desktop CD-R Publisher for fully automated backup of data (~2 CDs per day) controlled by a Linux PC. The publisher just broke and we are looking into a new backup solution to automatically burn and print CDs or DVDs. Solutions for CD/DVD duplication are available for Windows and Mac (for example: Primera and Rimage [which acquired Cedar in 2000]) but not for Linux. While a Mac would be OK, none of the manufacturers seems to offer scriptability or a command line interface which is essential for our task. Tape and HD backup are not an option - the data is already mirrored on RAIDs. Has anyone set up a similar archival system using Linux?"

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  1. Xor? by yppasswd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he says "Tape and HD backup are not an option", well,
    I'd think he has considered all the other solutions.
    There are cases where CD archiving is the only solution.
    For example:
    - Legal requirements of read-only media. My case.
    - If archives must be guaranteed readable by common
    hardware (and I mean COMMON, try buying a tape reader
    in your favorite supermarket...)

    Sure, backup on CD is a pain, but this was not
    his question.