[Coco] Roger Taylors Coco DVD

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 06 August 2007, Kevin Diggs wrote:
>Hex Star wrote:
>> How will we know when it's ready for purchase? As I've said before and
>> will say again, if Roger  does not wish for the dvd package to be shared
>> via internet download then I will not put the dvd pack on my server and
>> instead will use it for my own personal hobby interests as well as make a
>> backup image of the dvd package on a internal offline backup harddrive. At
>> no time will the dvd ever be shared online if that is Roger's wish.
>>
>> --
>
>	Can someone explain to me why you need to "make a backup image of the
>dvd package on a internal offline backup harddrive"? Isn't a DVD going
>to be far more reliable than some hard drive? Hard drive failures? User
>errors (i.e. rm -f)?

It depends on the dvd Kevin.  dvd+r's have an estimated life of 70 years, 
dvd-r's as little as 18 months, so if you want archival storage, you put it 
on dvd+r's.

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