Best Optical Backup Device/Media Today and Tomorrow

[Tony]

I used to wish for fast DVD-RAM but 12x media never became available in the
states even though the drives are ubiquitous. DVD-R/RW with SecurDisc
technology probably gets one pretty close to DVD-RAM reliability (?) and Mt.
Rainier technology seems to have dropped off of the radar. When prices come
down, Blue Ray BD-RE seems like the way to go. Where DVD is appropriate for
small backup sets, Blue Ray, it appears, will bring optical backup to users
with much larger backup sets.

(I have written-off external hard drive backup as too risky: drop that thing
on the floor one time and bye-bye backup data. Online backup to a remote
server sounds good in theory, but unless you own the remote server, it's
still your data in someone else's hands to potentially hack into).

I'm currently backing up to DVD-R/RW but haven't used the SecurDisc
technology yet, but plan to. What are your preferences and wishes for backup
of small datasets such as encountered on standalone workstations and SOHO
environments?

Tony

 

[Rod Speed]

I used to wish for fast DVD-RAM but 12x media never became available
in the states even though the drives are ubiquitous. DVD-R/RW with
SecurDisc technology probably gets one pretty close to DVD-RAM
reliability (?) and Mt. Rainier technology seems to have dropped off
of the radar. When prices come down, Blue Ray BD-RE seems like the
way to go. Where DVD is appropriate for small backup sets, Blue Ray,
it appears, will bring optical backup to users with much larger backup sets.

(I have written-off external hard drive backup as too risky:

More fool you.

drop that thing on the floor one time and bye-bye backup data.

Completely trivial to package it so even dropping it wont lose the data.

Online backup to a remote server sounds good in theory, but unless you own the remote server, it's still your data in
someone else's hands to potentially hack into).

Completely trivial to encrypt it so that they wont be able to do that.

I'm currently backing up to DVD-R/RW but haven't used the SecurDisc technology yet, but plan to. What are your
preferences and wishes for backup of small datasets such as encountered on standalone workstations and SOHO
environments?

Hard drive for the convenience of backups of the entire image
etc, and offline for the most important irreplaceable data as
well, so that if the place burns down or some damned plane
crashes on it etc, its no more than a damned nuisance.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I used to wish for fast DVD-RAM but 12x media never became available in the
states even though the drives are ubiquitous. DVD-R/RW with SecurDisc
technology probably gets one pretty close to DVD-RAM reliability (?) and Mt.
Rainier technology seems to have dropped off of the radar. When prices come
down, Blue Ray BD-RE seems like the way to go. Where DVD is appropriate for
small backup sets, Blue Ray, it appears, will bring optical backup to users
with much larger backup sets.

(I have written-off external hard drive backup as too risky: drop that thing
on the floor one time and bye-bye backup data. Online backup to a remote
server sounds good in theory, but unless you own the remote server, it's
still your data in someone else's hands to potentially hack into).

I'm currently backing up to DVD-R/RW but haven't used the SecurDisc
technology yet, but plan to. What are your preferences and wishes for backup
of small datasets such as encountered on standalone workstations and SOHO
environments?

I posted some DVD-RAM experiences here recently. Not too good.
It think DVD-<non RAM> is even a lot worse and not backup
material at all.

Arno

 

[Tony]

I posted some DVD-RAM experiences here recently. Not too good.
It think DVD-<non RAM> is even a lot worse and not backup
material at all.

Do you know about SecurDisc technology though? It was designed to address
reliability and security issues with optical media. Check out the LGE
website for more info or maybe even the Nero site. Or here:
http://www.securdisc.net/.

Tony

 

[Ed Light]

It's good to do a quality check on each backup you make. DVDInfoPro or
Nero DiscSpeed. My new Pioneer 215D isn't compatible with DiscSpeed so I
had to get DVDInfoPro, which won't check CD's. But the quality of the
DVD-R burns is fantastic on my chosen media.
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[Arno Wagner]

Do you know about SecurDisc technology though? It was designed to address
reliability and security issues with optical media. Check out the LGE
website for more info or maybe even the Nero site. Or here:
http://www.securdisc.net/.

I know about dvdesaster. Older, but essentially does
the same thing (for free). Will not help though, if the disk
does not check in.

Arno