Video saved

[realspeed]

Don't know why but a favorite video on my hard drive decided to disappear without trace, was not even on the second backup hard drive, very strange!

Luckily I have a habit of backing up to DVD as well after having previous computer crashes and hard drive failures.

So searching through loads of DVDs I found the video and restored it to the computer hard drive and backup second hard drive.

I know many on here don't do the same but DVD disks are so cheap now I seriously think it pays to save to them and not just rely on computer hard drives

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[Pookeyhead]

I never use DVDs for back up. They're not reliable enough. They're not archival stable, and they have a limited life span.

Single hard drives are pretty flaky as well.

Unless I have a back up of the back up, I'm not happy. If you are archiving your images to a single medium, then deleting them from your main computer, then that's not back up.. it's merely moving them to another storage medium. If only one copy exists, then it's not backed up. I'm not saying that's what you do, but I know many who do this.

 

[Neil B]

Sorted out a few of my old CDR's and DVD's yesterday and some went back too 1995 so getting on for 20yrs old and i had no problems.
I do wonder if my HD's will last that long

 

[Pookeyhead]

Any dye based media is inherently unstable. Just because you have never had a problem, it doesn't mean it's foolproof. It means you've been lucky. Many say the same for HDDs: "I've never lost a single file in 20 years" etc...

Files in one place only are not backed up anyway. If those CDRs dating back to '95 is all you have... I'd seriously start thinking of a back up.