On 11/26/06, John Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.)
I have CDs from 20 years ago that read fine in my CD player of today - why would you expect DVDs to be any different in 20 years? Shoot, you can still walk into yon electronics department of almost any store and buy VCRs - and they've been around for closer to 30. True enough, the media might go bad (burned discs seem to never last as long as stamped), but the technology shouldn't be going anywhere. 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/
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