There have been aspersions cast on the longevity of cdr's (Volker has the info IIRC).
Presumably the same will apply to DVD's written on the computer, particularly now the media is coming down in price (read being mass produced to lower quality standards.) But it depends how long you want your backups to last. If you are doing a complete backup once a week/month/whatever, it should only need to last that long. (OK maybe two or three times that long, for some redundancy, but its still relatively short). What you don't want to do is save all your precious files to cd/dvd, delete them off the hard drive, and lock them in the cupboard for 5 years. On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:11:38 +1300 Steve Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > To put in my 2c worth, we have a DAT tape backup unit, which I think was the > same model Noah used on the Ark. It stores 4 gig on a 120 minute special > high-quality DAT. > > Backups that we haven't accessed for 5 years are still good, which is > something in these days of dubious archiving longevity. > > But it's flippin slooooow. No, really. 3 or 4 hours a tape, double it if > ya verify. > > I'm sure they've sped up a bit these days, but the tape is still expensive. > And it's still tape. > > Why not get yerself a DVD RW? The price has dropped heaps, and media is > cheaper than tape. And it fits your IDE bus easy. > > Good luck > Steve -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
