20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
4:30 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Antonio Carlini wrote:
You cannot rely on a CD (not even a pressed CD) for
anything important. You need at least two CDs, preferably
more. By the time you realise you were unlucky enough
to hit the bad one in the batch, it is too late.
Correct. I still do backups of
all data (and images of media)
onto DLT tapes, two copies per "volume", in separate locations.
The ISO ormat is well documented. If you ignore
various
copy-protections schemes, the for straight-forward normal
CDs, I would be surprised if you cannot access one 100
years from now. You almost certainly won't be able to burn
a new CD-R (since noone wil be making the media) but you
will be able to access an ISO file. If you use something
Correct, many ISO-level
image browsers exist.
like Nero with its (I assume ...) undocumented .NRG
format,
you'll have to spin up an emulator and a copy of WXP with
Nero. Convert to ISO before then and you should be OK.
.. and most of those
browsers understand .nrgs as well.
--f