I have been trying to deal with the backup issues as well. My problems
is scale; I currently have about 24000 ripped flac tracks on hard disks
which is about half of my cds. This is currently taking up a little
over 1.0 TB on my linux box. Duping the drives would be painfully
expensive. A raid setup would be almost as expensive and you would not
be protected from OS problems (but it is Linux, so that's not likely).
I ultimately decided to back them up to DVDs. IF any single drive dies
I will have to spend an hour copying back in a bunch of DVDs, but that
is small compared to the time it took cdparanoia to rip them and for me
to get the tags correct. All total I will use less than 500 DVDs and
those will only cost about $250-$350. Since a single 400G internal
drive costs about $250 this price seems reasonable. I still have the
problem that DVD-Rs,while more stable than CD-Rs, will probably not
last all that long, particularly if you label them (which I did; 500
unlabel DVDs is the stuff of nightmares). Hopefully they will last long
enough for the new vertical storage high capacity hard drives to become
cheap. I think DVDs are the best compromise between time, cost, and
security but there is no perfect answer. I have been averaging about
15cds to a dvd when flacced.
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DrRobert
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