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thisislife2
4 hours ago
I am guessing, but many of us still use CDs / DVDs (/BluRays?) to make backups. It's cheap. Lasts long.
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sellmesoap
4 hours ago
Write once has some security benefits as well!
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alt227
4 hours ago
> Lasts long
My CD backups lasted about 10-12 years before the silver started peeling off the discs :(
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thisislife2
3 hours ago
Yeah, learnt the hard way to have backups in multiple medias and that you have to refresh / re-copy your backups every 4-5 years. Wish we had consumer tape drives so that it could be once every 10 years or so.
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