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To: LTBH who wrote (727)5/20/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Notworm, I believe we discussed this at some length
before you were posting here.

I still recommend a CD-R (not a CD-RW) for backup.
The medium is cheap, it is randomly accessible, is
accessible anywhere, and once
written is archivable virtually forever. Tape is
royal pain in the keister, and you're forever trying
to figure out how the heck to recycle the damn things.
Slower than all get out, too, and prone to medium errors
to boot. CD-R can be randomly overwritten with multisessions
if you want to do that; or you can take incremental backups
and have all the increments randomly accessible with
a naming scheme.

All backup systems are a pain in the butt to
organize and to adhere to. This is none the less
true of CD-R than others, EXCEPT you can shove the
disk into your CD-ROM drive and figure out exactly
where you are anytime you want.

I don't know as I'm the guy to ask about operating systems.
They all fail for me sooner or later. I'm lucky that way
<GGG>. It's why I've had to learn so much about recovery.

Spots

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