Re: Warning: Finder doesn't save immediately

In article <695temF30qg3nU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Ridd
<chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-05-16 18:01:43 +0100, Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> said:
<snip>

Keeping all the incrementals as a poor man's Time Machine is less
useful as time goes by.

Nod, but it is obviously much quicker than doing a full backup :-)
Sure, but restore gets *very* silly with 100 incrementals totalling 10
fulls. (Still bearable if you restore very infrequently)

I quite like Backup. I slurp stuff from all the various Macs lying
about the house every night onto one big disk. Then I use DVD plans
monthly to deal with offsite backup. Except that is very tiresome.
Where are the 1TB DVDs I need?
My iTunes plan is 32 DVDs
Blecch! I give up. Buying more disk instead.

How about BluRay discs?
At £8 for 25GB you might as well keep buying 250GB disks for £78 with
added convenience, speed and re-usability.

Blu-ray is too little too late. Pretty well stillborn technology. They
spent too long duking it out with HD-DVD.

It was going to take about 10 hours to back up my iTunes to 30 DVDs. It
took 50 minutes disk to disk.

Blu-ray 2x is 72Mb/s or a measly 9MB/sec, I still need to play postman
6 times and have to wait for a verify pass on each disk. It would take
8 hours to get all 130GB of itunes onto Blu-ray.

Now consider recovering a single tune: 4 hours v 4 seconds.

Hopeless!

Wake me up when I can buy 1TB opticals with a read and write speed
around 100 MB/sec that cost less than 10p per GB.

I bought 50 DVDs for £8 yesterday. That's 4p/GB. Ordinary disks have
Blu-ray snookered at the high end and DVDs with very similar
performance have Blu-ray cornered at the low end.

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