So far the DVD is reliable. But, as a friend of mine used to say, "if it's not on tape, it's not" ;-) Jan On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:55, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote: > > > You can get an NEC DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW/CDR/RW for about $120 if you look > > around. That's what I paid for mine (including shipping). > > Ooh, but I've read that DVD is not really reliable, or at least not > proven to be reliable for archiving. > > For large data amounts, probably good old tape is still the best. > > But backups are for wimps. (Linus T.) > > ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
