Hello,
Here is a report out of the trenches/practice.
In 2003 and 2004 I made Full System Backups with Norton Ghost 2002.
This happened in ms-dos mode.
The Norton Ghost software backup up a couple of gigabytes to little files of
1.46 MB onto (Lenco) cd-r's.Now in the year 2008, the last few files on some cd's can't be read by a BenQ dvd/cd drive.
These cd's look a little bit weird... They have a golden edge at the sides.
The outer side of the cd's probably get scratched really easily...
A tiny little light scratch is enough to make it unreadable. That's my theory at least.
The disappointment is mostly with the ghost software itself.
It's completely unable to read any files what so ever.
It sucks big time.
Unless I can find some special switch to at least restore some files... I will not be using Norton Ghost backup software ever again.
I might even write my own simple backup software in the future to know for sure that it's better.
I just need a couple of little html files which were not stored in other data backup's.
So I am quite disappointed at all this technology in general.
Waste my time, wasted my money, sucks.
I hope to learn from this.
I hope to backup my Dream PP 2008 in the future much better than I did my previous computers ;)
You've be warned people... also I am not the only one having "corruption" problems. Google shows many people having these kinds of issue's which is ownly logical... We need better technology that can survive multiple bit errors... Like even a million bit errors should be possible...
Anyway... I still have some other backups... I have an even older backup from 2002... But it probably does not contain the files I need.
I also have copies of these backup's in a data safe in another place... However first I need to go there... and then unlock the safe and get it out =D
I will try to that some days from now... maybe those cd's are better ?
It's interesting to find out if a big "data safe" provides any better storage conditions ;)
So: to be continued... ! =D
Bye, Skybuck.