At 1:24 PM +0200 10/9/04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >How safe do people consider DVD-Rs as a backup media? Safer/Unsafer than >CD-Rs (which are not all that safe from my experience).
Hi, Johannes - I've used CD-R's for backup for several years now without problems. Also, within the last year, I've made a couple of DVD backups, but in addition to the CD-R's. I think there's much less of a chance that DVD's will be readable on machines other than mine than CD-R's. Now I use an external HD which is partitioned to hold three complete backups if my computer's HD if it were totally full, which it never is. HD's are not expensive, especially if you get the enclosure and drive separately. The price point seems to be just under 200GB. So, now I backup on the external HD, and the important stuff on CD-R's. My next related project is to make a bootable partition on the external HD. Regards, Carlberg Carlberg Jones Guanajuato, Gto. MEXICO _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
