Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The Tuesday 2007-02-20 at 08:59 +0100, jdd wrote:
>
> >> I would have to find a source closer to me than that.
> > don't worry, the quality may have fallen as soon as the test was
> known :-)
>
> X-)
>
> > and who will be here in 100 years to know if Kodal ly or not? whow
> cares?
>
> Paper...
>
> > the only backup reliable is redundency. Think your house can get
> fire or water
> > flood. Spread your valuable data...
>
>
>
> Even backing up two different sets of dvds is no guarantee. A dvd can
> develop a failure in one sector, the second copy in another sector. Would
> there be a way to generate a correct copy from both?
>
> The thing is, we need software that generates reliable backups using
> unreliable media. This was done in the past.
>
> For instance, sectors would have redundancy in another sector of the same
> disk, spread around, so that a read error in a region of the disk is not
> fatal.
>
> I read about a software that created a redundancy set for a dvd, but
> needs
> to be stored somewhere else. If the dvd develops errors, the data can be
> recovered using that software and the error prevention set for that dvd.
> Nice idea, but cumbersome... that data should be integrated inside the
> same dvd.
>
>
I thought CDs (and DVDs?) were written with data interleaving, so that
forward error correction could be used to handle bad spots on the disk.

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