I respectfully disagree with Pat. I am backing up to DVD+R, although I admit that this is a hundred times more convenient if done at the same time as ripping your collection in the first place. I might make a different decision if I already had all the rips done.
I'm finding that one DVD+R is holding anywhere between 12 and 16 CDs in FLAC format which, at half an hour per CD to rip, fix up tags, download cover art, etc is about the limit to what my patience will allow me to rip in a day. This means however that I have found a system that works perfectly for me. I rip about 15 CDs during a day and then just before I go to bed I set a DVD backup going to create the next DVD in my backup set and do a read-back verification on the media. I'm also keeping a simple text document that records which CDs are archived onto each DVD so that if I have a localised corruption then I know which DVD to pull out to recover a file or directory. Since the backup happens while I sleep and is interleaved with my ripping activities it effectively takes me no time at all. I only have about 700 CDs in my collection and I'm estimating about 50 DVDs but even at UK prices this is only costing me about $17 in blanks (and they're not bargain basement blanks, they're top rated media) and you can get very nice 100 CD/DVD storage wallets to hold them all in one neat case that fits on a bookshelf. Once I've caught up and ripped/archived my entire collection then as I buy new stuff I'll rip it and add the newly ripped CDs to my text file under the category "un-archived". Once my list of un-archived CDs gets to 16 (or whatever fills a blank DVD) then I'll burn them onto a new DVD and reset my un-archived list to empty. As with others, I always have my original CDs as the ultimate backup (and legal proof of ownership). - Julian -- JulianL _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
