Thanks for all the warnings on backups. I have religiously burned a DVD after every 12-16 CDs ripped (depending on when I had a DVD's worth) so I have 2 physical backups of all my stuff (one being the original CDs of course). Typically I've been ripping, encoding and tagging my collection at a rate of about 15 CDs a day and then setting a DVD archive going overnight while I sleep. I do a read-back verify as part of the burn process and I am using the best DVD blanks I could get so I have a pretty high confidence that the backups are good.
I believe that DVDs could degrade but I suspect that in 2 to 3 years time I will probably have switched over to BlueRay or similar so at that point I will probably refresh my backups anyway so as to reduce the restore time. Also, because of the nature of the data I am backing up, I wouldn't really care if I had a few localised bad blocks on a backup, or even a few complete DVDs turned to coasters. As long as most of them are good it would still reduce 400 hours of re-ripping an entire collection down to about 30 hours or so to reload my entire collection (give or take a few hours depending on how many CDs I did need to rip from source because of DVD corruption, hopefully none) so I'm happy with this tradeoff. - Julian -- JulianL _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
