Hi Peter - I'd completely agree, and would suspect that no-one has a completely 'risk free' approach. Risk is a relative thing, and in engineering terms is normally defined as the combination of the likelihood of a 'loss' with the severity of the consequences. It's all about choosing a level of risk that you can live with given the importance of the data and the 'cost' (in time and money) of doing the backups.
If my tag editor messed up and corrupted some tracks, which then got written to a backup before I had noticed the corruption, then I've decided I could live with that (I might end up re-ripping a couple of CDs). Like most people, I suspect the thought of losing an entire collection is less palatable. This is what I was trying to suggest (perhaps badly) in my last post - that checking the integrity of an existing backup is only part of the problem, and that checking that you're not overwriting a valid backup with corrupted data is probably harder to deal with. This is one of the reasons for doing multiple / incremental backups, but then you need to decide how many copies you need to keep over what period of time... For irreplaceable personal files and photos, etc. I do periodic backups to DVD (kept offsite) as well as more frequent copying between PCs and to external HDD. Putting all my music and other 'stuff' onto DVD would just take too long to do, and even then I'm not sure that a single DVD would be reliable enough! BRs -- Wonko ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wonko's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32163 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
