Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?
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On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote:
[snip]
> yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic
> data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer and
> distributor) failed for five minutes while i was backing up to another
> hd in the same machine. so: i am repairing all (two weeks work) and i
> *will* use not-rewritable dvd's because they seem maybe more than a hd
> independent of external factors.
> (this is not completely true of course; like most statements).
Good: your business did regular backups!
*REALLY BAD*: your business did regular backups to the same media!!
_Always_ have multiple backup media and rotate between them. (The
"enterprise" learned that decades ago during the era of 9-track
tapes, which were prone to read and write failures.
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