Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?
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@Polygeekery It seems pretty unlikely that Dropbox would randomly corrupt all of the versions at once, just of that one specific file. What is far more likely is that I'd corrupt the file (program crashes in the middle of writing, power loss, solar flare, who the fuck knows) and then Dropbox will see the corrupted file as "changed" and sync it. But in the event that happens (and it's actually happened before), I can just roll back to the previous, good, version.
And like I said, I do have an "offline" copy of the folder, so there's also that. If I was more concerned about files being corrupted, I should probably update it more often, but I have to admit I'm not particularly regular.
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@brie said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
What is far more likely is that I'd corrupt the file
That's why replication isn't the same as backup. Both are good, but for different reasons.
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Cloud storage version history could be quite useless for backups
My sister was hit by ransomware at some point, and she was using cloud-storage-with-file-history. The ransomware wrote the cloud-synced files often enough that all the versions retained there were ransomwared and could not be recovered. ( yes, dropbox states days, not # revisions. This was OneDrive, which only kept 5 revisions at the time)
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@robo2 Yet, that could be mitigated just by having a second synced computer that wasn't turned on at the same time... you could yank its network connection, power it on, and you'd have recent-ish copies of all those files right there. (Alternately, pull out the hard drive and copy the files off it... if it's a laptop that doesn't have a hard wi-fi switch, this might be safer just to make sure it doesn't connect and start syncing encrypted files.)
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@brie said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
It seems pretty unlikely that Dropbox would randomly corrupt all of the versions at once,
A person at work was just trying to get a file. All 30 versions of the history were the same original version. (I think that was on Box) So much for those hours of work he just did...
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@dcon said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
@Zenith said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
LightScribe
I have one of those. I like it. But they no longer exist... (Haven't looked for media for a bit. I wonder if it's still available... later...)
My optical drive is LightScribe capable, but I've never seen any LightScribe discs
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@hungrier said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
@dcon said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
@Zenith said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
LightScribe
I have one of those. I like it. But they no longer exist... (Haven't looked for media for a bit. I wonder if it's still available... later...)
My optical drive is LightScribe capable, but I've never seen any LightScribe discs
which led to:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=LightScribe+cd-r&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Well, shit. They've gotten expensive (170)! Guess that's not too surprising now... I think I got my 50pack at about 20 or 30US way back when.
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@hungrier I haven't seen them at stores for years but I haven't seen much at stores for years.
Shopping for toys, movies, books, video games, computer stuff, doesn't matter what because it all looks like this:
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@Zenith Inventory and shipping is so cheap for businesses not run by me at this place charged $4.51 shipping, mailed two separate packages, and paid Discover Network's interchange fees, and probably still turned a profit on two packs of discs.