On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:47:34 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't do it, man. Your chances of getting a coaster are *way* too high for > any sort of even vaguely reasonable backup plan. If nothing else, you can't > verify your backups until you've finalised the disc, and you don't want to > finalise the disc until you've got it mostly full, but you want to verify > your backup ASAP so you can redo it if it's stuffed. > > I can just see the mounting pile of reasons why this is a Bad Idea... > > Buy yourself a USB HDD and go from there. The pain and suffering is not > worth the short-term cost advantage of the CDs.
Thanks for the warning. I wasn't aware that a CD has to be finalized in order to become readable (I think the only time I tried multi-session burns I managed to read without finalization, but will check again). If this is true then I'll drop this dream and think of an HDD (still a bit scary with its sensitivity) or a tape (which might become a problem to find another driver if it fails on me sometime in the future when tapes are too scarce to come by). Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
