Re: BackAgain/2 and large numbers of files

Doug Bissett schrieb:
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to be somewhat unreliable too, so it was on to the next thing. CD-RW was okay, but by then, they didn't hold enough, so DVD+-RW became the media of choice. DVDs work quite well, but it was (still is) necessary
to verify that the data was readable after it was written. DVDDAO handles that job very well.

Thanks for the nice overview. One comment I want to add - if you ever want to do a backup on DVD, then use DVD-RAM. Never any other DVD. DVD-RAM is the only disc which seems to be some sort of reliable. Any other DVD/CD media is gambling with your data.

Regards
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