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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis,

On Saturday 17 February 2007 13:46, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> I have seen advice on listservs not to back up to a CD ROM.  I never
> understood why.  Why is it a bad idea to use CDROMS as storage media?

For me, at least, CDs per se are too small. DVDs can constitue a 
manageable solution for backing up select portions of one's data (but 
still not for most whole-system backups). With multisession writing and 
rewritable media, you have acceptable _backup_ media, but not a very 
good archive solution.

I'm kind of hoping that one of the new DVD formats (HDDVD or Blu-ray) 
will prove useful for backup and, perhaps, archiving purposes, but it 
remains to be seen if it will become economical (cost of drives and 
media) and what sort of longevity and reliability characteristics those 
media formats will exhibit.


Separately, does anyone know of Linux software (perhaps a FUSE file 
system) that exploits optical drive packet writing? I've seen such 
things for Windows (simulating an everyday read/write, random-access 
magnetic drive using an optical recorder), though I was always sorry 
when I tried them because they seemed to make my system unstable 
(though that was probably just bad driver coding).


> Dennis J. Tuchler


Randall Schulz
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