<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marsden MacRae</b> <<a href="mailto:mmacrae@earthlink.net">mmacrae@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dustin wrote:<br>> I forget who asked for my Mondo Rescue scripts, but they are on the<br>> notes for the "Cool Tools" talk I gave last night:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.laurences.net/Dustin/Computer/UnixQuickies/mondorescue.html">
www.laurences.net/Dustin/Computer/UnixQuickies/mondorescue.html</a><br><br><br><waves hand in air><br><br>Me! Me!<br><br>thanks!</blockquote><div><br>
I didn't ask then, but am interested in them, too.</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> Something else I forgot to stress: optical discs aren't really permanent.
<br>> They work just fine for an ongoing backup process of data that you keep<br>> "live" on a hard disk somewhere, but I would be unhappy if someone took<br>> what I said as a licence to archive their family photos to a CD/DVD and
<br>> then delete them, figuring the disc will be there forever.<br>><br>> Dustin<br><br><br><br>ehh? dumping photos to a CD isn't "permanent"? Could you expand please?<br>offlist is fine if this is OT.
<br><br>thanks!<br>Marsden<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
Please do it on-list.<br>
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I know they're not perfect, but what would be a better solution?<br>
Last I heard, cheapo disks were not very permanent (2 years?), but
brand name ones pretty good. And CD-Rs possibly more permanent than
CD-RWs.<br><br clear="all">Swantje<br>-- <br>"Small things done with great love will change the world."