Dual layer VeeDeeDees can hold 8.56GB

>uups :)
>I call all those CDs ... wheater it is 'Finding Nemo' DVD for my daughter
>or it is Playstation discs from my sons :))
>
>DVD writer is what I meant.
>Even my my little daugter does better then I do by calling it 'VeeDeeDee' :)) (DVD)
>
>At the moment tapes are still more convinient for us (7.5 GB to back up daily). So I wld need two devices/discs daily.
>Perhaps that will soon change.
>
>
>>Hi Srdjan,
>>
>>I stopped using tape drives some years ago, went to CDs. Now I use DVDs, one day's backup is about 3.5GB, so DVDs are just perfect.
>>
>>>Hi Tore,
>>>
>>>I think they will become obsolete in near future,
>>>with rapid development of flash drives and HQ rewritable CD's.
>>>We are actually planning to go for CD backup in the near future.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>Hi Jerry,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You can have look at XDIR tool here in downloads.
>>>>>>>There is xcopy() function there implemented in pure fox,
>>>>>>>which can be used to backup your data anywhere you specify. (Except tape)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Why except tape?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Naomi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Tapes are sequential devices. They cannot be simply mapped as drives
>>>>>and written with regular copy commands. (At least ones we use here)
>>>>>In order to backup on tape you need to use some tape writing tool like
>>>>>MS Backup or NT backup or respective proprietory softwares.
>>>>
>>>>Actually there are a few companies who make drivers for their tape streamers which make their tape appear as a local drive. But these drivers are a real PITA, you have to be very careful if you have it installed on your local computer. If you install a new tape with data on it, your computer will busy reading the tape for several minutes.....! I installed such a driver on my computer a few years ago, and I removed it a few minutes later.