Re: W7 + REX v2.29   
     By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Fri Oct 08 2010 17:37:19   
      
    >  JD> Of course.  but only if the media goes bad    
    >   
    > not necessarily... all too often people find out that their backups are no   
    > good even though they may have verified as good during the backup   
    > process...   
      
   And, DVDs especially of the cheap variety, do go bad, sometimes rather quickly.   
      
      
    >  JD> you wouldnt be talking about Frodo would ya?   
    >   
    > in the above, that is one package i alluded to, yes... IIRC, the problem,   
    > in that particular case, was not the media or the device but that the   
    > backup was no good even after verify during the backup routine... it was   
    > only later when the backup was needed that it was found to not be viable :?   
    > this has, actually, been a long time problem with tape backups of all   
    > types... i've run into it myself and only because i tested the backups   
    > later by attempting to restore them to another machine specifically set up   
    > as a clone of the original... even moving the same backup devices to the   
    > new machine didn't help... whether it was floppy, tape or HD...   
    >   
      
   Yeah, I can relate to that too.  Been there done that, luckily it was nothing   
   critical, and I still had the original.  Simply could not read the tape.  Was   
   NOT stored near anything magnetic either   
      
      
    > sometimes, no matter what you do, you are the bug instead of the windshield   
    > :(   
      
      
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