Re: Backup solution

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After working for many years with hard disks (internal and
external) and with CDs and DVDs, I find that the long-term
reliability of burnt CDs and DVDs leaves a lot to be desired.
On numerous occasions have I seen such CDs and DVDs
becoming partly or wholly unreadable after a few years,
regardless of which burner they were created on. Initially
each an every one of them was readable but they deteriorated
over time while stored in their sleeves in air-conditioned offices.


"RalfG" <itsnotme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Burn the photos to CD or DVD.

A second harddrive or even an external harddrive would be just as prone to
catastrophic failure as the main drive. Some types of hardware failure in
the computer could take out both harddrives at the same time. External
drives can fail on their own, as happened to me recently with an external
drive that was less than 2 years old. Luckily it was only the electronics
in the external enclosure that failed and the data on the drive itself was
still intact, but the possibility of having lost everything in an instant
was there.


"mike" <mikaelpetterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Since we have a lot of family pictures on our pc I don't want to loose
them if my disk crashes. My idea is to add another disk and then use
some open source software to backup my original disk. I have Windows
Xp on my computer.

All hints are appreciated.

cheers,

//mikael





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