Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Am 13.03.2012 00:48, schrieb Nataraj:
I have been sucessfully using 8GB dual layer DVDs for some of my backups/archiving and now that the price of Blu ray has come down I am about to experiment with that. I have been writing dump format files to the DVD's and then writing an SHA256 checksum for each dump file so it's very easy to verify the integrity of the dump.
I am also about to try daily emcrypted backups to http://rsync.net along
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with periodic archival to blu-ray disk for one of my backup needs.
In my experience, the long-term stability of DVDs is rather questionable. I've had quite a few nasty surprises with DVDs. Even single-layer ones regularly turn out to be unreadable after two or three years, and double-layer ones are worse. I don't know if Blueray is any better in that respect.
Yup. I've been reading about that instability for several years now: the commercially-produced ones are ok, but not the ones you write; they will *not* last the same number of years.
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