On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/05/08 15:00, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD
berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over time.
If that's the concern, why not copy the archived material to new
media every five years or so? The discs aren't that expensive, and
experience seems to suggest that the data is pretty safe for that
time period. Keeping the current and previous copy would add
another layer of safety -- two copies are unlikely to both get
damaged in exactly the same spot.
But since that's tedious and prone to forgetfulness (who remembers
to copy -- possibly dozens of -- DVD's and CR-Rs to new media every
FIVE years?), continuous/rotating backup to modern ultrahigh-density
hard drives seems best for home and SOHO use.
That's pretty much what I do. I archive some stuff to optical media,
but it's mostly old software and TV program recordings -- stuff that's
nice to have, but that I wouldn't be too hacked off if I lost.
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