Edward Franks stated:
>
>You might also 
>check out want media brands your CD-R drive recommends, if any.

Good idea.

>       No name generics have spotty quality.  I've seen some fail in less 
>than a year.  That said, even CD-Rs won't last as long as the factory 
>press CD-ROMs games come on these days.  Multiple duplicate backups and 
>periodic testing of the backup is still a good idea.

So has anyone written a batch file to automatically navigate a file
directory tree and test the ZIP files?  Most of what I want to get off
floppies are shareware games I downloaded in my BBS days.  To think I
used to pick and choose which files to put on what disk for maximum
use of the disks.  It was the transition from 5.25" to 3.5", so I even
chose the format closest to the size of the file(s).  Now I'll
probably take all that stuff, put it on a CD-R and not even fill half
of it up.

>It's just 
>incredible handy to stuff gobs of 5.25 or 3.5 inch backups on a CD-R or 
>DVD-R.

Amen, brother!  That's my goal.  I've got a ton of disks to back up
and get rid of so I can reclaim a little bit of space.

-- 
Lee K. Seitz
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