BackupEDGE is not limited to tape drives. In addition to writing to any device your operating system supports natively, BackupEDGE
allows you to create backups on the following optical media types usually without native operating system support:
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-RW
- DVD-R
- DVD+RW
- DVD+R
- DVD+R Dual Layer (DL)
- CD-Recordable
- CD-ReWritable
On supported operating systems (currently Linux, SCO Open Server 6, OpenServer 5, and UnixWare 7.1.x), BackupEDGE
can make optical media backups bootable for Crash Recovery, providing a powerful single-medium Crash Recovery solution. When combined with our remote recovery capabilities, BackupEDGE
is an excellent choice for replicated sites supported by a shared, centralized technical staff.DVD media can hold up to 4.7GB per side, uncompressed (8.4GB for DL). DVD-RAM supports a high number of
rewrites (~100,000). DVD-RW and DVD+RW support ~1,000 rewrites. Compared to traditional tape media, the media is reusable practically indefinitely. For those with smaller storage requirements, a DVD
drive can easily replace a tape drive and CD-ROM in one small form-factor device! DVD-R and DVD+R media are write-once. Of course,
BackupEDGE can write to just about any device that your operating system supports natively as well.
Most operating systems do not natively support the optical devices listed here (at least with respect to writing to them), but BackupEDGE can generally write to them anyway, subject to the limitiations
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