On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:11 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > civileme wrote: > > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward > > 650Mb > > disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, > > and a > > $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive > > barfs > > on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 > > > > DO NOT USE CDRW media for this either--most of it is 650 and there are > > MANY > > supposed CDRW drives which will not work with CDRW media of the more > > modern > > flavor or insist on trying to treat all the CDRW media as 700Mb > > capacity. > > > > Civileme > > Interesting that you should mention this. > I have been trying to backup a directory full of mp3 files to a CD-RW. > They just REFUSE to write/recover properly. I can backup the rest of the > system with no problem, but not those mp3's. > IT may be yet another case of CD-RW problems.(?). > I may try burning them to a CD-R ... But I've got a pile of coasters now... > > I will probably just invest in a spindle of 100 of them, get it over with. > > Also, I tried writing the latest beta iso to a CD-RW. But nooo.. The > CD-RW drive is new, as are the disks. They burn ok, but if I move the CD > to the other (older) drive, and try to boot the box from it.. No go. I > can't even mount them on that drive. > If I burn the ISOs to a CD-R, all works like it should. > > I bought the CD-RW's thinking "Great for temp storage". But no.. I've > had far too many problems with them. > > I wish I had my DAT Drive with me. Can't beat tape for backups. :) > Sadly, it's in my server in Seattle, and I'm "STILL" stuck in Florida... > > sigh... > > Ric
I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80). Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is on tapes, let's reload OS--- done reach for tape Oops--tape is unreadable reach for two week old tape--Errrr gee that one is no good either Tapes sent to data recovery service--well whattayaknow They charged quite a bit to give me the bad news that six years of work was lost. The employer was too cheap to give me a separate workstation, so it was my six years of work that was lost. For the same reason, it was risky to try restoring from tape though I had always done one file a month. Anyway, the tapes were stretched and dirty and the drive was unusable. I have been burning CDs since that time, even when the burns were at 1X. Civileme
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