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James Bucanek wrote:It's a great idea. I do something similar myself, occasionally making a copy of my important archives to a second hard disk.
There's nothing stopping you from splitting an archive across multiple CDs/DVDs. This could be accomplished via the built-in command-line tools, and I believe there are several free and commercial GUI applications that will do this too. For instance, Toast 8 has an automatic disc spanning feature.
Should you need to restore from your discs, just reassemble the archive and recover the files.
James Bucanek wrote:One footnote: The data in an QRecall archive is probably safer than a loose collection of files on a volume. QRecall archives have multiple layers of integrity checks that regular volumes lack. If file data or directory structures on a volume are damaged, there is little in the way of sanity checks to detect the problem, and virtually no tools that can reliably reconstruct the original data. QRecall archives were designed with both of these goals in mind.
sjk wrote:What happens if any of that media develops errors; could a usable archive still be reconstructed?
James Bucanek wrote:"Usable" is a subjective term.
sjk wrote:James Bucanek wrote:"Usable" is a subjective term.
Was there a more objective one for describing what I meant?