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To: rll who wrote (3992)	11/25/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

rll, I have more troubles with CD-ROM drives than with the media (the drawer mechanisms break). Using CDRs for backup purposes limits the amount of handling so, unless you intend to set a new Guiness record for old age, your CDRs should last "forever". Last Sunday, I made spent 3.5 hours making a full tape backup with 5GB of data in 40,000+ files. Last night I made an "incremental" backup to my HP8100i CD-RW drive. It found 85MB of changed files (including the registry) and finished the backup/verify in under 7 minutes using about 10 cents worth of a CDR. As a test, I restored a selected file in <7 SECONDS. Try that with a tape drive! Craig