• Re: Running Linux In Vm O

    From ROB MCCART@VERT/CAPCITY2/CAPCITY to DUMAS WALKER on Wed Nov 14 21:52:00 2018
    I do recall back when standard optical disks were more expensive a friend
    >> used to buy spindles of 100 no-name ones to get a good price
    >> But he also noted right from the start that about one in
    >> five disks would produce a coaster so you do often get what you pay for.

    The one thing I found those good for was for burning music onto. Rarely
    >ever had trouble with them if I used them as music CDs. I would also use
    >them for one-time burns for OS installer discs.

    Yes, I think music software is better at covering for minor errors than
    pure data uses.. although these days with drives reading and writing
    so much faster virtually all drives are set up to 'best guess' small
    gaps for what is missing rather than generate an error and stop, and
    it works well 99% of the time.

    System backups that I expect (hope?) to never use I don't do all that
    often anymore unless I make major changes to the Operating System or
    change hardware requiring changed drivers and such.
    I keep a copy of the day to day stuff I need kept up to date backed up
    on a flash drive until there's enough to burn to a disk but I don't do
    the full O.S. very often.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ROB MCCART on Sat Nov 17 16:27:00 2018
    I keep a copy of the day to day stuff I need kept up to date backed up
    on a flash drive until there's enough to burn to a disk but I don't do
    the full O.S. very often.

    I have an old machine that I use as a file server here at the house. The
    bbs machine does a mirror backup to it once a day. Most of my other
    machines do it at least once a week, and I backup up that whole server to a
    usb hard drive once a week.

    Makes it easy to go back and get a file over the network (or the usb hd)
    when I accidentally fat-finger-delete it. :)

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