>>>>> On Wed, 06 May 2009 12:16:49 -0600, alexan...@nautae.eti.br said:
>> DVDs are likely less reliable than any form of external disk. a> Are you sure about that? a> I'm not using DVD-RW, just DVD-R. Ah, I didn't realize that. I had been assuming that you were rewriting existing disks. DVD-R's are much better for longevity (I believe) than DVD-RWs. That being said, the recently shown life expectancy of a DVD-R is somewhere on the order of 5 years. [Though I don't know what percentage of failure they're using to define that timing mark] You might consider re-reading the disk, at least, immediately after burning and comparing the checksum of the volume to the checksum written to the disk to ensure their the same. That'd provide a lot more confidence. a> DVDs are made to mass data distribution. USB data sticks are made just a> to move data from a place to another. Well, I was assuming a hard drive and not a USB stick. In theory, I'd actually trust solid state drives better (like USB drives) more than disks or DVDs because there are less moving parts. -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
