[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks.

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:15:00AM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:31:26AM -0400, James wrote:
> > I never trust anything to anything. The odds of recovering data from a tape
> > backup set is inversely proportional to the level of desperate need of the
> > files. I've seen RAID go away. I've seen fire wipe out replicated storage
> > devices. The technology that I trust the most (but not fully) is optical,
> 
> Perhaps you should read http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751
> 
> Most WORM drives are more reliable than CD-Rs, but the point remains
> that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, regardless of what
> it is.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I've had a lot of CD-Rs last a lot
longer than 2 years.  I suppose that could be why my NetBSD/sparc CD
stopped working after awhile though.

Besides, I'd hope I wouldn't desperately need a two year old backup.
That would imply that I've lost 2 years of work!