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Skriven 2005-07-01 10:50:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
   Kommentar till text 9047 av Tom Walker (1:123/140)
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Hello Tom!

Friday July 01 2005 07:02, TOM WALKER wrote to GEORGE VANDERVORT:

 GV>> Same Here..
 TW>
 GV>> I used and Relied on my HP Colorado Tape Drive for years
 GV>> with "FASTBACK" software to backup my Data, I had 50 or
 GV>> more tapes in storage, and discovered that 50% of the tapes
 GV>> were no longer reliable for Recovery due to Age,
 GV>> or Media degridation after one year on the shelf..
 TW>
 GV>> Same goes for Floppies.. <sigh>
 GV>> I had 3500-4000 Floppies in my collection some 5 or six
 GV>> years old, and most of those yielded a error message on
 GV>> read attempts..
 TW>
 TW> My current policy is to NEVER put anythng on a Floppy or a Tape that I
 TW> want to keep. Right now my Main Archive media is CD-R disks. I avoid
 TW> CD-RW's becaseu to a lesser extent they can suffer form "Sudden Death
 TW> Syndrome". The Media is FAR less reliable then that of the CD-R.
 TW> Because of the rappidly increasing in size of what one wants to keep I
 TW> have procured a Single Layer DVD to play with. Althouhg anyone
 TW> concidering the DVD media I would strongly urge getting a Double layer
 TW> Drive.
 TW> Even that is only a termporary measure fro those with very large
 TW> storage requirements as the next generation of DVD drives, Blu-Ray or
 TW> whatever as therre is a Format war going on right now. Which means
 TW> take a "Wait and See" stance. But either the single or double layer
 TW> DVD's can do just fine and they are about as reliable as the CD-R
 TW> format. Althouhg I stil lrecomend a Backup of the Backup!!  :-)  :-)
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I agree with you on this one too!

My currently CLONE my 80 Gig HD to three
Identical 80 Gig HD's same brand using the
(Son, Father, Grand-father method)

Which might be a little overkill,
But better safe than sorry!!!

Have a Nice 4th of July..

In my County here in Central Texas
the County Commissioners have issued a BURN BAN
and a FIREWORKS Ban, since we have had no rain
for 30 days and the afternoon Temperature has been
in the High 90's every day and 101 for today..




Regards,
George Vandervort
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