On 2 Jan 2006 at 17:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What he said. Frankly having dealt with Netflix I think DVDs scratch too > easily. My other experiences with DVDs too. And they can break. Sure when > archiving one is going to be very careful, but still...
What do you do with your DVDs to scratch them? It costs very little to produce two DVDs for every back-up, at 8x backing up and verifying 2 x 4.7GB will take less then an hour to complete. Use one as your working archive and park the other one somewhere safe, don't use it. If your working disc becomes scratched make another off your safely stored unscratched back-up and turn the scratched one into a Frisbee. > Sometimes I get irked. Because sometimes people with more money than myself > offer solutions that, while good, I feel are out of my reach financially. > This > list has enabled me enough. :-) And I know they aren't doing it to irk me, > but > they should bear in mind that we can't all afford the topmost optimal > solution. And we aren't NOT doing it to irk them. Few people here seem to be advocating much more than DVD back-up as a near ideal current archive solution. This is not an expensive option and should be accessible to people of even limited means. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
