Subj : Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
To : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 07:44 am
-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ni>> I've also seen "M-Disc" recordsable optical discs that are
Ni>> supposedly made to last a lot longer than regular recordable
Ni>> discs.
Ga> Haven't heard of those, but might look for that the next time I buy a
Ga> spindle of something. I don't use many any more these days, but a
Ga> couple of times a year I'll burn my /SBBS directory to one, date it, and
Ga> add it to a pile.
Ni> Yeah, I often used to burn my BBS backups to a CD-R, but now,
Ni> even compressed, my BBS backup file needs more space than a CD-R.
Ni> I've been using a USB flash drive most of the time now.
A USB drive would work fine too, although somewhat more susceptible to
damage/erasing, or even loss, I would think. I use a DVD-R these days.
I actually haven't done that (burn a disc) in quite a while now... I do
have an automated event that runs each night, doing an rsync "diff"
backup to a server box here in the house, and also doing that to a
remote/cloud server, (a Linode hosted VPS) that I have. Also every time
I do an SBBS update, I do a complete /sbbs directory copy to a local
server box, prior to starting the update. So I feel like I've got
enough safety nets. :-)
