How about a few USB flash drives. They are relatively cheap and if your concerned about failure it should be possible to copy the data twice.
There are also a few archive formats that support repair of missing data but I am not sure how well they would do with losing a significant portion of the data. I wonder if something like par2 would fit the requirements. On 11/05/2015 11:14 AM, Digiital aka David wrote: > No question go for Harddrive. BUT don't put your trust on just one > drive either. The power up and power down puts a lot of strain on the > drive, you are just better to leave the drive on all the time. Better > option would be a NAS with RAID setup. > > I have had a few drives gone belly up, lucky I had them setup as RAID > and had a backup of the backup. > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 15-11-03 03:59 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > > Looking at backing up a little less than 300 GB of files. Want > to do > one copy to 25 GB Bluray discs. > > > I don't trust CDs and DVDs for backup. I don't think I would trust > Bluray either. I have had discs go bad on me over time. For that > much data I would use an external hard drive. > > -- > Cheers! > > Kevin. > > http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that > distract > Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's > why we're > | powerful!" > #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 [email protected] ||
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