Re: Verbatim Cd-R's are junk!!

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:24:00 -0800

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:06:13 -0800, Chris Carlen
<crcarleRemoveThis@BOGUSsandia.gov> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:21:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
>> <thegreatone@example.com> wrote:
>>>Taiyo Yuden are the best, bar none. Costs slightly more than the
>>>junk, but worth it. I buy them a 100-pack at a time.
>>>
>>> ...Jim Thompson
>>
>> We back up everything (entire company library) weekly onto a few
>> Office Depot DVDs, and they seem fine. The Brat discovered a cave
>> under our garage at home, so we take each week's backups and original
>> release media (floppies or CDs), pop into a ziploc, and throw into
>> that into a big cardboard box, one for each year. I figure that if we
>> have a server disaster, we'll figure out the mess then.
>>
>> John
>
>I don't think it's wise to use no-name media, CD or DVD, for data archival.
>

Our philosophy is massive overkill onto write-once media. Everything
official is released on floppy or CD. The company librarian copies
that to a server drive (proving the media is ok at that instant) and I
take the originals home and put them in The Cave. Every week we burn
an archive of all the server files and put them in the cave, too. Once
in a while somebody else takes a set home, just for luck. Every file
is copied so many times that the media could be 99% unreliable and
we'd still be OK. This scheme allows for server files to be corrupted
too, unlike rotating backups.

A few years ago we copied all our tape backups to CD as the drives
became obsolete. Like they say, only the paranoid survive.

John

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