-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 12:42 -0500, James Knott wrote:
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.
Yes, but that can be taken into account beforehand by the recording program, by using self-correctable byte codes and sectors, so that errors in the media (a bad sector, for instance) can not simply be detected, but also corrected. Does that exist in Linux? I have used that method almost 20 years ago in MsDos, with floppy backups. Why don't we have that in Linux? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF2OhOtTMYHG2NR9URAoXRAJ9dSe4ExPSbhTEl0tj6nhfNzgFX0wCeKo+o EHJmuV+Y+dOpsfNbkBprxFg= =Z6tH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org