evertveldhuis wrote:
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> --- In Walter Knapp <> wrote:
> > Do not consider hard drives, removable or not as your archive.
> That's just working storage.
> >
> > Archive to optical media of some kind.
> >
>
> Walt
>
> To be honest: no storage medium will hold its data for ever.
True, although with the optical media the issue is the survival of the
format, or software to work with it. It's likely the data will be fine
long after we can read it.
> 3) CDR's (abslolutely no CDRW) and I do store the file in the wav
> format again, converting it to CD audio is not a back up in my
> opinion: it then becomes a user product.
Since CD audio is the same uncompressed audio, why do you not consider
it backup? It can be pulled back into the computer with no loss.
> Call me paranoia but I hate to loose my files!
Me, too. I follow your pattern, except I've got the added backup of two
sets of audio CD's stored in separate locations, and my main optical
backup is real optical disks.
Walt
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