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Re: Online backups

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In article <lveh6u$q9n$1@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> But my pictures and movies I burn to DVDs or CDs every few months,
>> each time starting from the present and going back as far as I can
>> while still fitting on the disk. That way there's always some overlap
>> and multiple disks have part of that overlap, affording me some
>> redundancy.
>
>For additional redundancy on the DVD's/CD's, you might consider
>Dvdisaster (http://dvdisaster.net/en/index.html) as well as your
>current "overlapping" process.

This.  Up to 20% of my BD-Rs can rot away before they become unrecoverable.
(You can set dvdisaster to a lesser amount of redundancy, but at 20%, I
still get 20 GB of usable space per BD-R.)

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Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-17 08:24 +0100
  Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-17 15:44 +0000
  Re: Online backups "RS Wood" <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-18 06:36 -0500
    Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-18 11:55 +0000
      Re: Online backups RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-18 13:31 +0000
        Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-18 23:20 +0000
          Re: Online backups Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-09-18 18:37 -0600
          Re: Online backups Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-19 13:14 +0200
            Re: Online backups Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-09-19 12:51 -0600
          Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-19 15:43 +0000
            Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-19 18:50 +0000
              Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-19 21:43 +0000
      Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-18 17:06 +0000
    Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-18 16:27 +0000
  Re: Online backups Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-09-19 16:31 +0000
    Re: Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-20 08:03 +0100
      Re: Online backups Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-09-22 16:34 +0000
        Re: Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-22 19:28 +0100

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