On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:47:30AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> At 10:26 AM 4/24/02 +0200, you wrote:
> >Ross Boylan wrote:
> >
> >Just a thought -- I have heard that CD-Rs have a 1-bit per 100kB error
> >rate
> >in 1 year. What that means is that in your typical 1-Meg program,
> >backed up to CD-R
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:47:30AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I've heard that CDR is pretty reliable; the error rate you describe would
> make it almost useless. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
>
I too am surprised at the statement. But I have many cd's with me which
are about 3
At 10:26 AM 4/24/02 +0200, you wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
>
Just a thought -- I have heard that CD-Rs have a 1
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
>
> This means I'm interested in compression and streaming solutions.
>
Actually, I haven't seen any data at all. My father told me that he
had seen that in a magazine article. I am quoting him.
The point of that was that CD-Rs were not a good storage medium for
programs.
For graphics or uncompressed music, they are fine. They're also fine
for
text files, where
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
>
> This means I'm interested in compression and str
on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
CD-Rs are too small to be practical for any reasonab
hi ya
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, DSC Siltec wrote:
> DSC Siltec wrote:
>
> Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> > amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> > system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
>
DSC Siltec wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
>
Just a thought -- I have heard that CD-Rs have a 1-bit per 10
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
> amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
> system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
[...]
> The problem is a lot of the stuff doesn't ad
begin Ross Boylan quotation:
>
> Thanks for any info or advice.
Large hard drives are really, really cheap. If you can spend $100 and
solve your whole problem, isn't that worth it?
Add more space. Make backups to it, then chunk them to CD-R at your
leisure. I use flexbackup with afio for mak
I'm trying to do a fairly comprehensive system backup to CD-R. The
amount I have to backup is much larger than the free space on the
system, which in turn is larger than a CD-R.
This means I'm interested in compression and streaming solutions.
I just tried afio -o -Z piped to cdbackup, but this
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