Re: W7 + REX v2.29
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Fri Oct 08 2010 17:37:19

 >  JD> Of course.  but only if the media goes bad 
 >
 > not necessarily... all too often people find out that their backups are no
 > good even though they may have verified as good during the backup
 > process...

And, DVDs especially of the cheap variety, do go bad, sometimes rather quickly.


 >  JD> you wouldnt be talking about Frodo would ya?
 >
 > in the above, that is one package i alluded to, yes... IIRC, the problem,
 > in that particular case, was not the media or the device but that the
 > backup was no good even after verify during the backup routine... it was
 > only later when the backup was needed that it was found to not be viable :?
 > this has, actually, been a long time problem with tape backups of all
 > types... i've run into it myself and only because i tested the backups
 > later by attempting to restore them to another machine specifically set up
 > as a clone of the original... even moving the same backup devices to the
 > new machine didn't help... whether it was floppy, tape or HD...
 >

Yeah, I can relate to that too.  Been there done that, luckily it was nothing
critical, and I still had the original.  Simply could not read the tape.  Was
NOT stored near anything magnetic either


 > sometimes, no matter what you do, you are the bug instead of the windshield
 > :(


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