[pmmail-list] Backup Strategy was Digest (01/20/2003 09:01) (#2003-430)

[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:40:30 +0000 (GMT), Simon Bowring wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:40:22 -0800, John Bridges wrote:
>
>> You cannot beat CDR as a standard medium that won't require special
>> software to read in 25 years.
>Wow!  I'd be amazed if any current media has (easily available)
>(h/w or s/w) in *25* years time!  Have any formats ever lasted 
>that long?  Will they ever?

A friend of mine advised me to use the more expensive CDR discs that
are phthalate-based as opposed to azo-dye based. The HP ones are meant
to be good, they are not the usual darkish blue-green colour that Azo
dyes give, they are a gold/white colour and are supposedly good for
many more years (>15) I think.

YMMV.

-- 
Brian Morrison                                       bdm@fenrir.org.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
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