No ECR for me...

[drscott]

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.

Comments

[handlebear.livejournal.com]

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.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

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?