On 1/3/08, Marius Hooge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug wrote: > > >2. I don't know the size of the disk to know the size of the backup > > media required. However, CD/DVD burners are less than the cost > > of a hard drive and the media is relatively cheap. > > I personally don't recommend backups to CD/DVD. > They degenerate rather "quickly" depending on their quality and > the storage humidity. > Unlike a USB/Firewire harddisk inside your fire-, water-, emp-proof > safe/vault. ;-) > But make shure to set some kind of reminder to update your backup.
this is becoming OT, but I can't recommend storing HDDs as "real" backup solution either. HDDs _do_ have bitrot, and one should at least, say, once a year, verify that the *whole* disk is readable, ensuring that sectors which are not yet completely unreadable get remapped. Vaulting a DVD or a HDD for five years or more leaves you in both cases with the real possibility of data loss. --knitti
