> have, I really do want to keep.
> 
> I have some large databases, lot's of my CDs encoded (it just takes
> time I rather not eat again), source code, text files, and images I've
why don't you record these encoded CD (mp3 i assume) to CD-R?
> collected over the years.
record all old (not changing) stuff to CD-R
 
> My critical /home files, /etc, mail, and sources will fit in a CD, and I
> use cddump for that. Then I have level 0 dumps on tape and then slowly
> do something close to the hanoi sequence for a few months.
> 
> For the really cumbersome stuff, I do one big multi-CD/tape backup and
> after that never do a level 0 again, just the new stuff.
> 
> If I could just get 10GB per tape instead of 4, it would help a bunch.
> 
> I was hoping the Onstream stuff would be nice, but it doesn't look that
> way.
they have expensive tapes. with cheaper tapes it looks very nice.