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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Back ups first
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:56:04 -0800
References: <012701c2f805$4c52e0a0$687ba8c0@billjohn>
In-Reply-To: <MCENINJAIBODLHBJPKBMMEPKCEAA.jkwoodis@rogers.com>


On or about 06:36 04/01/03 a carrier pigeon from Ken Wood delivered:

>CR-R and CD-RW are much faster but not very convenient. You can't schedule
>it for offtime because it may take more than one disk. For my stuff it takes
>three CDs, and I have to be around to change them.

Only three <G>

A full backup of my system, with compression, takes 20 CD-Rs,
(hence my tendency to only do 1 or 2 a year). Incrementals I tend to do
monthly, and they can run up to 3 CD-Rs on a bad month (after lots of
installs).

And since a CD drive only gets the rated speed on the outer edge
of the disk, and they write from the center outwards, the typical speed is
about half the rated...

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