> And of course, removable disks sitting on the shelf never have any > problems??????????????
Generally no, as they have not been 'burned' or dyes altered yet. > My experience is that all of these approaches work, if you understand the medium > and work with it accordingly. > > My experience around here is that there is a relatively small amount of critical > data on the hard drives that is easily and quickly backed up to CDs (which we > read verify in addition to the verify after write process). Four times a year > the complete drives are backed up to tape. Once every year or so the computers > are taken down, cleared and reloaded with the recovery disks and then updated to > clear the machine of gremlins that seem to creep in no matter what you do. No > very sophisticated, but it seems to get the job done. > > Otis > > Brad Dobo wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:26 AM > > Subject: Re: A must read! (WAS Re: Digital-only labs) > > > > > CD-R's are very easy to damage either physically or during a write > > > operation. Lost a > > > lot data on a cd doing an incremental backup. One bad file write lead to > > > an un-readable > > > un-recoverable CD. > > > > Just to add a technical note to this. Peter is exactly correct about the > > CD-R. However, I would like to add that a CD-RW is potentially worse, and > > even with a successful write and proper storage, a CD-RW can actually become > > unstable, or in other words, 'go bad'. > > > > Brad Dobo >
