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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:48:24 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CD Longevity

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J. R. Fox wrote:
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> Peter,
>
> Backing up your DVD collection (esp. if you're talking movies, and
> I don't know that they can even be backed up, without some hacker
> tools) is going to make rather short work of that 250 GB !

And watching your DVD collection is going to make short work of your
spare time. What's your point? Either you want to safeguard your
collection or you don't.

If the DVD's are mostly full then it's cheaper to make DVD copies,
although to me it's a lot easier to put a bunch of DVD images on a big
hard drive for safekeeping.

> (And I wasn't at all sure you could even
> use a drive that large with OS/2 . . . ?)

I'll let you know soon. I have this new 250 GB drive that I'm going to
install.

(There are a lot of caveats. If your motherboard won't boot to a huge
drive then you have to boot to something else like a smaller drive
first. Perhaps AiRBoot can do this seamlessly, I don't know.)

> So, you make ISO images of everything, onto the H/D ? And what
> do you use for doing that ? I hope you're not going to say MKISOFS.
> I'm kinda allergic to the Unix-oriented stuff like that.

Foxey, there might be a good treatment for those allergies of yours out
at the medical center in Camarillo.

- Peter

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