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Re: Using CDs/DVDs to backup and dvdisaster



Nice Tool Man thanks 
for more info about tool visit: http://www.dvdisaster.com/
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 02:52 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> As some of you may know, I like to keep my backups in CD-RWs and DVD+RWs
> and the issue of media reliability is one to take into account when doing
> the backups, just to see if you can restore the backup that you made.
> 
> I recently discovered one excellent program already packaged for Debian,
> called dvdisaster. I would recommend it to anybody interested in seeing how
> (un)reliable your CDs/DVDs are.
> 
> It can also create extra data (redundant data) to further read the data in
> the future (in the undesired event of bad media).
> 
> Well, just wanted to spread the good news.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Rogério.
> 
> -- 
> Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito
> Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de
> Homepage on freshmeat:  http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/
> 
> 



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