On 11/25/06, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> I'm considering backing up to bzip2 instead of gzip (.tgz) to pack more on a single DVD. <end snip>
Steve, you are missing something here. In 20 years you will not have a device that is capable of "reading" a DVD. (That assumes that the plastic disk is still in working order also.) Not counting one in the closet, do you still have a 5 1/4" flopply drive on your PC? That is 20 year old technology. The IBM 3.5" flopply came into being only 19 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2 I don't even want to think about all those 20 years old back-up tapes! :) john mitchell -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
