On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 01:53 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:33 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > Frank Cox wrote: > > > On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:57:26 -0500 > > > Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> One terabyte divided by 8 gigabytes per double-layer DVD comes out to 125 > > >> DVDs per backup. > > >> > > >> Are you out of your freaking mind? > > > > > > I actually used to back up my BBS system to about that many floppy disks, using > > > FastBack Plus. > > > > > > > You see, there are some of us who don't have money or don't want to give > > it and are willing to find a different solution :) > > > > Sometimes a bigger (expensive) hammer is not the answer :) > > I think that the point that is being made is that the cost of the > optical media and your time is going to exceed the cost of an additional > hard-drive. Plus, as is being pointed out, the integrity of your backups > are easily lost with just one scratch on the surface. > > I know. I tried doing this and have lost several batches of backup from > one scratch on the dvds. I'm still angry at myself about it. So, unless > you have a source of free blanks, the cost is there. I think K3b will > create data disks. You might check that out. Ric > > -- > ================================================ > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar > http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too > ================================================ > This is probably too late to help you ric, but the disks are plastic, and the actual media that the recording is made into is a layer in the middle. The plastic can be buffed. I had a favorite dvd movie that I loved, and it got scratched. I used toothpaste (not a gel, the old paste), and a soft cloth (a diaper which we keep for working on varnish and my motorcycle windshields) and buffed it out. Take a small daub of toothpaste, and using a circular motion with the finger(s), just keep polishing the area with the scratch out to about 0.5" from it. This will restore the clarity of the plastic and the recording can be recovered. rinse, buff and repeat until the scratch is no longer present when light is reflected off the disk. Make a copy once it is working, because new drives spin quite fast and I suspect the disk physical integrity may be compromised. Hope this hint helps some of you with those disks you thought were lost. Regards, Les H
