Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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> >On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote:
> >>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote:
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> >>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).
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> >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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> Shouldn't the answer to the general question of backup media include the
> concept of 'archival'?
I've always considered the questions of backup and archiving to be
orthogonal, even though the tools used are often the same.
If you don't back up your archive, you risk losing it.
-- hendrik
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