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[stf-06]

This week end I have been checking all my old CD backups (dating back 1995 for the oldest!) and was horrified to get around 30% failure while trying to copy them
Fortunatly, most of them I can get back from here, but not all (like Heimdal 2 with audiotracks).
And last week I had a crash with a USB hard disk and lost 30GB of series episodes (fortunately the rest of the disk is still readable)...
So I was wondering what was your long term archiving strategy! Multi backup on DVD, RAID disk? Do you know if Solid State disk are more reliable?
Thank you!

Stf

[otiscrusher]

30Gb is nothing. Ppl loose a few TBS all the time. No big deal, just get the shotgun and pull the trigger, gently

[Warepire]

I store my backups as:
2 External hard drives (same content) and DVD-Rs (same content as the hard drives)