Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:20:28 -0800 Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:54, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 
> > The reliability problem I had in mind was this : my experience with CDs 
> > is, out of 10 CD's burned, there's always one that's messed up (i.e. 
> > buffer underflow/overflow causing the CD to be useless). 
> 
> Wow!  I've never had a CD mess up under Linux.  I burn at 4x with
> CDRecord and occasionally K3b.  My "Designed for Windows XP" Compaq
> notebook wouldn't burn a CD at all under Windows XP.  I didn't bother
> finding out what the trouble was because the burner works flawlessly
> under Mandrake 9.1.
> 

I, too, have never had a bad burn at 4X, but you might want to google for
reports on the highly variable reliability of the CD-R media.  I've read reports
that some media burns with no error but is not completely readable after the
fact.  This would be a big oops for a backup application!

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.