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.  :-)


.... Daddy, what does "now formatting drive C:" mean?
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