The writable CD media is readily available at Staples, etal in packs of 25
or 50 or 100.
It is just as easy to do the daily backups on CDs as well. Just takes a
little longer setting up than popping in a zip disk. When you insert a blank
CD it knows to format it. When you insert a partially filled one you have to
tell it to make it writable. Both take a minute or two. After that it is
just like a normal disk and you can drag and drop or whatever to it. Then
you have to close it which again takes a minute or two, You can leave it
open and only close it when full but then you can't read it on a normal CD
drive.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pwf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:42 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Re: Opening copy of Ebase from Zip disk
>
>
> Given that filemaker does crash and force you to restore from a backup
> occasionally and that the errors may not be apparent for a while, it is
> prudent to keep many layers of backups. With ZIP disks at about
> $10 each it
> is far cheaper to install a CD writer where the media is $0.50 each and is
> permanent. You never overwrite it. We make daily backups on a set of 5 zip
> disks, one for each day and then reuse them the next week. We also make
> weekly backups to CD and get many to a CD, just make a folder
> with the name
> being the date and copy the files into that folder. These are all
> offsite as
> soon as written.
>
> Wonderful. So, I buy a CD to do weekly backups (and insert the
> CD, just as
> if I'm inserting an audio CD yes?)...but what is the CD writer...media
> $0.50? Is this something I definitely need and if so, how do I obtain?
> Thanks again
>
>
>
>
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