Re: help please - True Image - creating DVD image
- From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:38 -0400
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:38:33 -0400 in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, R. McCarty favored us with...
> never rely on a magnetic media as your only recovery
> point. Except as someone pointed out to me, streaming tape where
> you have multiple full and incremental backups to choose from. But
> after years of doing corporate backups on Unix servers, I can tell you
> that tape has some problems of it's own.
I did tape backups religiously in the middle to late 1990s, but more
often than not I found the tapes were unreadable a few months later.
Currently I backup to my external HD almost every day and
periodically burn a CD or DVD just in case.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of
evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world
where three out of four people have learned to read and write."
--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46
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