Re: Somewhat OT: Data backup using Blu Ray


"John Devereux" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"BobW" <nimby_GIMME_SOME_SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I need to backup a 340GB hard drive.

Has anyone here used Blu Ray for this purpose?

After reading a bit about the subject, it appears that there are four
types
of Blu Ray writable formats:

BD-R (25GB write once)
BD-R DL (50GB write once)
BD-RE (25GB rewritable)
BD-RE DL (50GB rewritable)

It seems that these discs can cost anywhere from $12 (BD-R) to $50 (BD-RE
DL).

It would be nice to find a less expensive method of backing up this 340GB
drive, but perhaps this is the most reliable and compact method.

Any other ideas?

Backup to a hard disk. Either to a portable USB one, or to another
machine (via local network or the internet once you have a remote copy
to synchronize to).

You can also get network attached disk drives (e.g. "Big Disk").

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John Devereux

John,

The issue is the reliability of hard drives.

I had about eight old hard drives that I decided to backup onto this 340GB
drive. Only the newest ones ( < 2 years old ) worked properly. One wouldn't
spin up unless I shook it. A couple of them had a bunch of bad sectors and
thus resulted in some lost files. Two were completely unreadable and
unrecoverable. All of these old drives were working perfectly before I put
them into storage.

I have five USB<->IDE boxes. In order to recover their data, and I used
several techniques to recover the data from these:

- tried different brands of USB<->IDE boxes
- ran CHKDSK/F and/or CHKDSK/F/R (in a command window)
- ran defragmenter (this turned out to be a useful tool as it gave me a list
of files that couldn't be defrag'd, and then I could merely delete them and
complete the backup)
- used xcopy/s to do the final copy, in a command window, because Windows XP
gui had a hard time copying all the large files because (I think) it would
attempt to copy to RAM first.

So, I want a backup format that will last a lifetime (or at least for the
rest of my life). Hard drives aint gonna cut it.

Thanks.

Bob
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