Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: minutes - computers help - Do-It-Yourselfers

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

I hate the idea of using CDs and throwing them away afterwards. That's just
a waste, and why fill up the landfill? You can use zip disks just as easily.
Text files are so small. And in my house we use an old tape back-up that is
super-reliable. For you newbies, tape back-up was once the standard because
it was the most reliable. But it's slow. We have to run it overnight.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California

http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing/
tamgoddess [at] home.com

> 
> Although it's traditional in dataprocessing to rotate backups
> to rewritable media I think that, given rewritable CDs have a
> limited number of times they can be written, and write-once
> (CDR) disks so inexpensive I'd choose to keep writing the
> complete community meeting minutes (and history) to new CDR disks.
> 
> Bruce

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