VCR to backup computer information using Linux?

Every intermediate to advanced Linux user know that the linux kernal can recognize hardware inputs without beating about the bush (ie /dev/hda, /dev/sda) and so forth. I know that inputs are usually usb, firewire, scsi,etc,--which is how you can backup data to minidv. I enjoy to imagine nearby would be a way to undertake this with a vcr and vcr tape.



I have a vcr which I never use and close to 20 brand new vhs tape that I'll never use! This would be a great way to put these items to use at low-no expense. I know a min-dv will hold 10-20GBs of information. A VCR tape should hold much more. I consider myself a hacker contained by that I like to know what make things work and find different ways of doing things.



Thanks for all relative replies within advance,



tsairox



P.S.

I use Debian Etch 4.0 x86_64

VCR to backup computer information using Linux?

The dv surrounded by min-dv stands for digital video.

The digital part is totally important, you can store information on a min-dv because it stores digital data that doesn't necessarily own to be video, but to store digital data on a VHS cartridge is more difficult because it stores video in an analog craze, so storing digital data on it requires special equipment and would probably at best work as powerfully as the old Tandy video drives that used to record notes on audio tapes. Obviously you should know how to record greatly more on a VHS tape than you could on an audio video but you will need some vastly specially engineered equipment to do it.

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