On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:-
The Tuesday 2007-02-20 at 05:58 -0600, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
I don't know. They are just as close as your mail box.
Mailing across an ocean is not cheap.
I've found some 8x DVD-R branded Aone that have the media ID TYG02. Not had a problem with them so far, but only been using then for a couple of years. Also found some unknown brand 8x DVD+Rs that have the ID MCC003[0] that I've also only used for the last year, or so, and also had no problems with. According to: <URL:http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm> both of these are supposedly 1st class media and suitable for archiving. Interestingly, the above URL also states these are often the most expensive however the last 400 I've bought were only 12GBP per 100. Works out around 17 euros, or 22USD. I've also some 4x discs burnt around 5 years ago[1] that are still 100% readable. And for the last few years, just to make sure my backups are going to be recoverable, I have a quite decent[2] backup system: 1, use tar to create an archive; 2, split the archive into 100MB pieces; 3, use par2 to create parity files for recovery in case of a media failure, using a 1MB block-size and 535 recover blocks; 4, burn about 3.5GB of data, plus the 530MB of par2 files to DVD; 5, make a duplicate of the DVD. Results are that if there is a failure of the disc, I can use dd to salvage the readable files, recreate the broken ones and burn a fresh couple of copies. The only time this would fail is if both copies of the DVD, or more than 530MB of data on both discs, were unreadable. [0] Unknown because they're full-face printable, so no branding, and I no longer have the label for the 50-disc cakes. [1] From the time-stamps on the files. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ RISCOS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.0 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISCOS 3.6 | SUSE 10.1 32bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3a1 32bit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org