[ale] archiving backups

[JD]

When you start spending over $150 - I'd strongly suggest looking at 4TB HDDs
first.  You can load a crapload (technical term) of stuff on a few of those (2
copies, right?) and the hassle factor will be much less than any tape - optical
solution.  For years, I was using DVD-based backups with par2 to fight complete
data loss - still have hundreds of those disks here - many are geting to 10+ yrs
old and still work fine.  OTOH, I know that is the edge of their lifespan and
HAVE NEEDED to use the parity files to recover some data over the last 2 yrs.
It works, thankfully.

Definitely look at those larger HDDs. I cannot imagine any household having more
than 1TB of "personal" data (non-media / non-pictures) that needs to be backed
up.  Videos, photos, audio files - I can see 20TB for that ... but that is a
completely different level than 99% of us.



On 08/07/2014 09:46 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The one advantage of the mdisk is the playback device is a standard DVD
> drive. The recorder drive is the same price as a regular DVD burner. But
> one would need to weigh the time cost of managing a growing archival
> collection against a larger and more expensive device.
> I like the LTO6 tape system at work but can't justify $12k for home.
> OK. I'm fine with it but the other people I live with would be extremely
> furious if I dropped that much on personal hardware. :-)
> On Aug 7, 2014 7:12 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/06/2014 09:34 PM, Vernard Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Also, check into M-Disc
>>>
>>> http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/
>> mmmm 90GB photos, 25GB DVD... no... I'd rather get them all in 1 place
>> at 1 time..
>>