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-----Original Message----- From: Michael W. Ryan <mryan@netaxs.com> Date: Saturday, August 19, 2000 14:42 |On 2000年8月19日, Nathan Thompson wrote: |I think I have to agree with Nate on this one. While writable CDs aren't |as durable as "real" CDs, they do have a good shelf life as long as, as |Nate said, you store them right (out of direct sunlight, etc.). My |*impression* is that tapes are less reliable. The benefit of tape is |that a) it's reusable and b) it can store more. Seriously, who cares about shelf life for backups? If it lasts for a year, that's good enough. If you're *archiving* data, that's different, but I always thought backups were to protect yourself against catastrophic media failure. Tapes vary quite a bit on reliability. I back up to an 8mm drive right now, and I've had three media failures in ~5 years. OTOH, I recently had the opportunity to copy a 9-track I made back in 1983, and tar read it just fine. Cheers! -- Tracy Nelson ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug