drscott ([personal profile] drscott) wrote2005-01-26 06:31 pm
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No ECR for me...

I'm punting both the gym and ECR to set up Mike's computer. Nothing could be retrieved from his crashed hard drive, so it's back to starting from scratch and downloading hours of updates. Fun fun. Too bad his machine is not that old, or it'd be the ideal time to buy a new one. I'll have to copy our library of music and pictures back to him when I get file sharing working again.

Note to self: buy lots more DVD+R blanks for my own backups.
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[identity profile] ciddyguy.livejournal.com 2005-01-26 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That sucks. I'm glad I ended up not having that dreaded IBM drive. I think the drive I had been thinking was an old IBM drive that had indeed kicked the bucket, which nessicated the purchase of the 17.2G drive I have now.

Anyway, good luck with it all. Having been there, done that, it aint fun.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2005-01-26 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh ouch. Yeah, nothing provides motivation for doing backups like watching someone's computer go south. G'luck with the re-creation!

[identity profile] handlebear.livejournal.com 2005-01-28 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
There has been a running discussion about what media is best on a mailing list at work. The DVD+R will start to degrade after 2 yrs so I wouldn't plan any long term backups on them.

[identity profile] dr-scott.livejournal.com 2005-01-29 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
What little I've heard of this seemed to be problems with the reflective layer being damaged from the label side by either labels or bad glue and excess flexion. I suspect if you use plain disks and store them carefully they will last decades, by which time we'll be uploading into the redundant cloud... I hope. Or did I miss a news item?
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