[ale] quick, simple backup

[Christopher Fowler]

I saw something on TechTV about CD media not lasting very long.  They
tested media that failed after 6 months.  Maybe good quality media can
be purchased at the store that will be of archive quality.  Your backup
system may not require the cds to last 6 months.  Archive system will.

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 12:01, Jerry Yu wrote:
> 	I'd go with CD-RW. You can add  one session to the CD-RW media for 
> a daily back-ups. Four or 5 CD-RW media cover one-month 
> worth of backups. After one-month, you start to reuse 1st CD-RW then the 
> 2nd in the CDRW set.  Do the same multi-session for weekly or monthly 
> backup, only this time on  a CD-R media.  
> This scheme is pretty  scalable too, considering the 
> current backup is 100MB vs a cdrw media of 700M.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 23 May 2003, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> 
> #All:
> #
> #Client's Travan tapes are worn.  They back up ONLY 100 MB critical files daily.  They're computer-shy, and just want to point & click.
> #
> #Shall I recommend:
> #
> #1) CD-RW ( cheap media, but has to be blanked prior to write )
> #
> #2) Zip 250 ( modest media cost, proprietary )
> #
> #3) other ?
> #
> #Thanks,
> #
> #Tom
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