From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5LMT-0002ZF-U6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ADBEE077E; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E99E077E for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993AF1C88CD; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:27:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:27:22 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: WYIPBlx9BEqqSbe0jxXeDuBt3rh+ThY05YQNPSS2c3FF 1227709641 Received: from [10.129.150.31] (unknown [92.116.150.31]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1EA85BA60 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:27:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <492D5CAF.3010504@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:26:55 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <200811252007.55035.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <38af3d670811251124v7d447918v82b7ec11baafd1a9@mail.gmail.com> <200811252102.52130.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <38af3d670811251219n4c531baft7aa37951271b7f00@mail.gmail.com> <492c6aef.uN1RRcHNp8dUe+Nc%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <38af3d670811251600m784f43c3i944a4ac56b001c49@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811251600m784f43c3i944a4ac56b001c49@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: faa69075-8143-47f7-b792-028198cab8a4 X-Archives-Hash: 1c07dff8284edce5b0eb28e58c9b8d62 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling > wrote: >> James wrote: >> [...] > As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and > to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and > since I don't take new photos every week, this solution is fine. > A second DVD-R won't solve the problem because optical disks degrade over time and the second one will degrade just as fast as the first. What you need to do is to check the disks periodically (once a year is a good time frame). I myself would add a textfile with md5sums for all files to the DVD so you don't have to check them visually.