CD-Rs suck

shawn

shawn

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Don't ever, ever, ever think for even one damned second that because you have a copy of something on a CD-R or DVD-R that it is "backed up".

Before anybody asks, no, I didn't lose anything except my Sunday afternoon.
 
GubNi said:
They are temporary storage. I've seen flash drives fail also. The only real backup solution is multiple backups.
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The only real backup is having it written on paper.
 
GubNi said:
They are temporary storage. I've seen flash drives fail also. The only real backup solution is multiple backups.
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Except that a lot of people think that having one copy on a hard drive and a second copy on a DVD-R constitutes having multiple copies.

Make multiple copies on magnetic media. Keep one of them off-site.
 
Ahh the good old days of disaster recovery classes... add a hot site was always the answer if I remember correctly :)
 
people think I am nuts with my 4 copies of all files on CD's and my SAN file storage, then my backup to disc array , then off to Tapes..

I am pretty sure I can get whatever gets lost :)
 
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