FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 4-23-04: DVD-writer & REV drive
I have just ordered a combination USB/Firewire CD/DVD writer and will let you know how it works once it arrives. Until recently, DVD writers were more expensive than external hard drives, but this one...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 4-31-04: The DVD-writer arrives
Dear FileSlinger clients, colleagues, and friends: I’ve actually been up late two nights in a row making backups. (You must be thinking “Get a life.”) My new DVD-writer arrived on Thursday. It came...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 6-25-04: Dead Media
Dear FileSlinger™ clients, colleagues, and friends: I’ve been searching the Web for interesting items on backups and came across an article discussing the frequent failure of backup systems (due to one...
View ArticleReplacing Tapes with DVDs
In his August 15 post Rethinking backup, ZDNet‘s Paul Murphy suggests replacing standard tape drives with a combination of RAID array and DVD superdrive. “The cash savings are obvious but other things...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-10-06: Xbox "Backups" and Dual-Layer DVDs
I don’t own an Xbox 360 and I suspect most of my readers don’t, either, but some of the millions of people who do decided that they wanted to be able to back up their games. (In this case I strongly...
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