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Which media to used
I've been backing up regularly with the same set of CDRW's for several
years with no problems. I also keep a running backup of new photos and
documents on a set of CDRW's formatted for packet writing (using Nero InCD)
which I've used for a year now. The packet writing works great up to a
point where the number of files gets very large, e.g. over 1000 files or
so, then I just add a new one to the set.
The packet writing is a little slower than writing a CD, but the disks then
write like big floppies where you can add one file, delete files, move them
around, etc.
As cheap as CDR's are the days, I hate making regular backups on them which
I need to throw away later. I do all my photo archives on regular CDR's
which I make "contact sheets" from. I keep one disk at home, and another
offsite for safety.
Doug
At 07:39 AM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>MIke
>Of course I am not Ed but just to give you a bit of advice. If you are
>backing up programs and such off of your computer I would recommend that
>you use regular non rewritable CD's as they seem to hold info better or at
>least they do for me and they are cheap enough that you can toss out the
>old one when you back up again. I do mine at least once a week as I have
>too much stuff on here to lose but I do also keep the older ones too just
>in case that one of the others does not work for one reason or another. Sandy
>
>
I've been backing up regularly with the same set of CDRW's for several
years with no problems. I also keep a running backup of new photos and
documents on a set of CDRW's formatted for packet writing (using Nero
InCD) which I've used for a year now. The packet writing works great up
to a point where the number of files gets very large, e.g. over 1000
files or so, then I just add a new one to the set.
The packet writing is a little slower than writing a CD, but the disks
then write like big floppies where you can add one file, delete files,
move them around, etc.
As cheap as CDR's are the days, I hate making regular backups on them
which I need to throw away later. I do all my photo archives on regular
CDR's which I make "contact sheets" from. I keep one disk at
home, and another offsite for safety.
Doug
At 07:39 AM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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