You also need to keep the software and drivers too. (I'd like to think I'm just paranoid...)
AlunFoto wrote: > At the agency where I work, we received roughly a TB of documentation > last year. Loads of DVDs and CDs. > > We've had important documentation on DVDs corrupted in less than 2 > years, and there's far much more money involved with these documents > than with any photo. > > So we regard discs as transport media only. > > Privately, I tend to think the same way. I use DVDs as a second-stage > disaster recovery backup, and make sure to keep the DVD unit used to > produce the backup together with the discs. I don't wish to run the > risk of subtle incompatibilities between different devices. And yes, > I've seen that happen at work. I have even seen differences among DVD > players/recorders from the same mfg. and same production run (similar > serial numbers). > > Backup is, at its basest, a continuous and iterative process. > > Jostein > > 2008/4/3, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" >> Subject: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta >> >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Most of my film scans are stored on CDs, and they still read well. >>> >> Keep your fingers crossed. >> >> I've had serious trouble with a whole bunch of CDRs containing my >> back-ups of film scan data. They were stored in specially made CD paper >> jackets, the kind commonly used in books or commercial software >> packages. These jackets, bought from a local CD production company, had >> self-adhesive flaps and it appears something evaporating from this >> adhesive has damaged the CDs in the jacket to the point that they've >> become unredable. All this after about four years of storage. There was >> a distinct brownish colouring of the CDs in the section whch had been >> next to the flap. >> >> >> I've had a few CDs go bad, stored in plastic jewel cases. I've always tried >> to buy name brand >> ones such as Verbatim or Fuji, and I have always verified the data after the >> write. It's just >> the luck of the draw, I guess. >> I'm pretty close to buying an external RAID of some sort, and I will >> probably transfer as many >> of my files over to it from the CDs as is practical. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
