Saving Files

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In addition to saving my files on the computer I also save them on CDs.
Recently a CD with very important files on it developed a fault, which
resulted in the CD showing empty.
The whole idea of saving files is that if my computer crashes (as it did, so
that I had to reinstall Windows loosing all my data) I will still have all
my files on the CDs, but if these fail as well how else can I save the
Files?
 
Redundancy - use more than one CD.

I use USB drives *and* CDs because method redundancy
also has its advantages.

"Zygy" wrote in message
news:uIouj0jvIHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> In addition to saving my files on the computer I also save them on CDs.
> Recently a CD with very important files on it developed a fault, which
> resulted in the CD showing empty.
> The whole idea of saving files is that if my computer crashes (as it did,
> so that I had to reinstall Windows loosing all my data) I will still have
> all my files on the CDs, but if these fail as well how else can I save the
> Files?
>
 
"Zygy" wrote in message
news:uIouj0jvIHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> In addition to saving my files on the computer I also save them on CDs.
> Recently a CD with very important files on it developed a fault, which
> resulted in the CD showing empty.
> The whole idea of saving files is that if my computer crashes (as it did,
> so that I had to reinstall Windows loosing all my data) I will still have
> all my files on the CDs, but if these fail as well how else can I save the
> Files?

This is why you don't rely on one backup set, and why you peridically verify
them. This problem isnt' new, and has existed for all backup media types.

HTH
-pk
 
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