Cat, I disagree with you - why you may ask? because this is a backup! Not the primary copy. The chances of your primary drive and your external drive crashing at the same time are pretty low (yeah I realize it could happen). A hard drive will allow you to backup fulls or incrementals automatically. Burning to dvd is very manually labor intensive process. Plus you need to remember what you backed up and when or just back it all up every time. Also there is a failure rate on your dvd's. I can remember once when I copied my models off to cd and as a test I went to copy them back onto my drive. I have several failures. Have you tested your copies on DVD this way? I have not done it in several years as I was very dissapointed with my results.
My backups are now completely automated :) Working in Storage Services for a fortune 500 company I can say that (our) standard practice dictates that only unchanging media should be written to optical media and periodic disaster recovery testing needs to be done. We just phased out the last of our optical media due to problems with the testing and recovery performance (OSAR) Just my two cents (ok - maybe 3) :) Chris On 5/14/09, Gary Pilsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not that far behind ya Mike !!!!!!!! > > *-------Original Message-------* > > *From:* Mike Hungerford <[email protected]> > *Date:* 05/14/09 19:10:45 > *To:* Papermodels II <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [Papermodels II 36495] Dang ... > > That's today. How many CDs would that take to back up? <G> > -- > Mike Hungerford > http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html > For science! > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
