Bill Davidsen wrote:
Dave Stevens wrote:
your thought? tests? reviews?
Since you ask, my current choice is DVD, using the dvdisaster system of
software assisted error recovery. Nothing is perfect, but a verified DVD
with software error recovery assist and good storage procedures is about
is cost effective as anything you would get on a flash drive, and a hell
of a lot less likely to be accidentally overwritten.
*Note*: unless a copy is stored off-site, it's not a backup it's an
archive. Think fire, flood, theft, untrusted employee, idiot relative, etc.
For archival, DVD is cost effective. Flash drives are not.
I have just had my second flash drive fail on me. I was lucky enough to
be able to mount it on one computer and only one port on that computer
would allow it to be mounted.
I wouldn't trust any flash drive at this time.
I would purchase a HD and use that. Of course, hard drives will fail if
they are not run up regularly.
My preferred method is to create the backup and then create par2 files
for recovery.
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Robin Laing
