how would you backup 1TB of data to dvds?
Mike Wohlgemuth
mjw at woogie.net
Sun Feb 10 00:45:04 UTC 2008
Frank Cox wrote:
> A fire safe is absolutely the wrong place to keep media like disks and tapes
> and so on.
>
> Fire safes work on the principle that they release steam when exposed to a
> fire. That steam is intended to keep the contents of the safe from catching on
> fire, obviously, but the safe is designed to protect paper records and the steam
> is hot enough to melt and destroy digital media.
>
There are fire safes built for digital media. What you say is
definitely true for a safe not specifically rated for digital media.
Mike
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