Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2007 22:46, 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?
In my experience, the problem is reliability
I made a complete backup to DVD. Immediately afterwards, I verified the backup, and everything was fine.
Three months later, I tried to do a restore, and found that about half the DVDs had developed read errors. So now I don't trust CDs or DVDs anymore
That is why you're supposed to make frequent back ups and keep a few generations. There is always the possibility of media failure, no matter what you use. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org