Archiving old backups to DVD

[roosta]

Hello,

I have a lot of backups going to my Personal Backup Server (TI Ent 9), and they're all categorized on the server under their own directories so I know which backups apply to which servers and their respective drives and such.

That information can all be viewed through the backup manager of course, but I thought it best not to take chances as I don't know if it's possible to archive old backups to DVD through the TI Remote Console.

Which brings me to my question. When you have a number of backups on your Personal Backup Server, how do you go about archiving them to DVD? I already have them all being broken down to a size for 4.7GB DVDs, but I don't see how I'm supposed to do the actual archiving. Will TI Ent allow me to archive old backups to DVD through the Remote Console? If so, will it allow me to label the DVD so if I ever need to do a restore through the console and prompt me to insert the appropriate DVD, so on and so forth?

I haven't seen any documentation on any of this. If any exists can someone please point me to it?

Thank you,
Roosta

[phil.brady]

Originally Posted by roosta

Hello,

I have a lot of backups going to my Personal Backup Server (TI Ent 9), and they're all categorized on the server under their own directories so I know which backups apply to which servers and their respective drives and such.

That information can all be viewed through the backup manager of course, but I thought it best not to take chances as I don't know if it's possible to archive old backups to DVD through the TI Remote Console.

Which brings me to my question. When you have a number of backups on your Personal Backup Server, how do you go about archiving them to DVD? I already have them all being broken down to a size for 4.7GB DVDs, but I don't see how I'm supposed to do the actual archiving. Will TI Ent allow me to archive old backups to DVD through the Remote Console? If so, will it allow me to label the DVD so if I ever need to do a restore through the console and prompt me to insert the appropriate DVD, so on and so forth?

I haven't seen any documentation on any of this. If any exists can someone please point me to it?

Thank you,
Roosta

Not sure about your hardware/software environment but I can say that I've used DVD with TI9 home version. Generate .tib files on a hard disk, copy them to DVD using NERO, then restored using a TI9 restore CD to a new HD.
The disk was well defragged before I started and only produced 2 DVDs. I think that the restore time was dominated by the need to format the new disk.
Caveats: Only a small system partition - under 8Gig and very well defragmented. I have seen reports of frequent media swaps with badly fragmented originals.
If this is so, then I think that the recovery disk needs a new option - copy file - to avoid this.
Hope this is somewhat relevant.
Phil

[roosta]

TI9 Ent doesn't use .tib files when utilizing the Personal Backup Server