Most of my music research involves obtaining copies of manuscripts that are
digitally photographed, then burnt onto CD ROM
by the library in Germany. The quality of the images is stellar! Compared to
the quality of microfilm, it's like the difference between night and day.
But still, I worry about
At 08:42 AM 11/10/06 -0500, Leigh Daniels wrote:
>"Trust--but verify.""
Funny. That's the title of my 2003 article on tethered programs.
(http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sm-copyp.html) Guess we both loved
that old guy's phrase... :)
And I use a similar multiple-backup method to yours.
Doesn
I can't stress enough how important it is to regularly verify that you
can recover everything from your backup media. Over the last 20 years, I
have frequently encountered situations where even relatively new backup
media were unreadable. When I used DAT tapes, I once had 2 out of 3 that
were unrea
