Backups Query

[Chris Torek]

In article <106600008 at datacube> berger at datacube.UUCP writes:
>Has anyone been doing work of using WORM optical disks for backup?

Biggest problem is speed (or lack thereof) when writing.  The
fastest ones I have seen (which is not necessarily) the same as
`the fastest ones that exist') would take three times as long to
write as our existing tapes.  No doubt this will change soon (or
has already).
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