On Saturday 17 February 2007 22:46, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> I have seen advice on listservs not to back up to a CD ROM.  I never
> understood why.  Why is it a bad idea to use CDROMS as storage media?

In my experience, the problem is reliability

I made a complete backup to DVD. Immediately afterwards, I verified the 
backup, and everything was fine.

Three months later, I tried to do a restore, and found that about half the 
DVDs had developed read errors. So now I don't trust CDs or DVDs anymore

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