Re: [ALUG] Backup media (was Optical media; WAS: A low powered backup solution probably/possibly.)

Hi, On 24/08/2009, Steve Fosdick <lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:13 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:

A week in the car seems to be pretty good at turning an audio disk that

I haven't had a chance to try writable DVD for data backups - the capacity is not particularly high and I'd be nervous of the same problem as with CD.

You wouldn't keep a data CD/DVD in a hot sunny place like a car any more than you would splash a big bucket of cold tap water all over your motherboard/PC to "cool it down". Don't the CD/DVD labels say not to place in a hot sunny place? Srdjan