On Tuesday 10 January 2006 01:54 pm, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Slashdot pointed to this. Expert says burned CDs have an expected > >lifetime of 2 - 5 years. > > > >http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.ht > >ml > > > >Bad news for those of us planning to pass photo albums to our kids in > >30 years on CD. The suggestion to use mag tape is ... well, not very > >practical and doesn't solve much, at least for the home user. > > > >We can hope he's wrong, but hope is a poor strategy, especially for back > >up. > > > >Any thoughts? Hopefully CD-R isn't the last advance in storage > >technology, but what to do while waiting for the cavalry to arrive? And > >what was all that stuff about "blue laser"? > > Redundancy. CDs are cheap. Make 3 copies, keep at least one in a safety > deposit box. Every 2 years, make 3 new copies, throw out the possibly > degraded ones. If you have such a high failure rate 3 seems insufficient, > scale up. > > Gabe
Nah, put it on the web. http://www.ourmedia.org/ “Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)” Linus Torvalds BobLQ "who has only important stuff is on the wayback machine." http://web.archive.org/web/20011221142239/members.home.net/prencesita/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
