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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:36:59 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CD Longevity

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Peter Skye wrote:

> Everything should be backed up, and that includes your CD and DVD
> collection. I recommend backup to hard drive because it's easy to
> administer, easy to copy, easy to restore (just store the ISO image).
> The cost of hard drive storage is somewhere around 50 cents for a
> gigabyte (I bought a 250 GB Western Digital IDE drive on sale at Fry's
> last week for $119, no rebate required). That's about 35 cents to make
> a copy of a full CD or much less if the CD isn't full.

Peter,

Backing up your DVD collection (esp. if you're talking movies, and I don't
know that they can even be backed up, without some hacker tools) is going to
make rather short work of that 250 GB ! (And I wasn't at all sure you could
even use a drive that large with OS/2 . . . ?)

So, you make ISO images of everything, onto the H/D ? And what do you use
for doing that ? I hope you're not going to say MKISOFS. I'm kinda
allergic to the Unix-oriented stuff like that.

Jordan

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