Re: [ILUG] tar + cdrecord...

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 03 Sep 2001 - 22:41:26 IST


On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:24:04PM +0100, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Liam Bedford wrote:
> > The normal blue/cyan ones only have a life of 20 years, and it's degraded by
> > UV etc...

uh, my home backups are only good for a month or so. the schedule i've
set up does a full backup on the 1st of the month (~350megs compressed)
and then does incrementals till the next month.

i'm doing backups, not prepping media for the library of congress...

> But in the absence of UV, they gradually degrade at room temperature, so
> you really just need a light-tight fridge. :-)

uh-huh...

kevin

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