Return to Flight : Minor snags.

posted 2010.04.08 at 16:29

I bought a spindle of Memorex DVD-Rs when xeno and I were at wal-mart last week, to do an ATC backup with. I started the backup yesterday with the mini-spindle I'd bought the last time Martin and I were shopping, and burned 27 DVD-Rs without a hitch. When it came time to use the new spindle - same media, mind you - none of them would burn. Or rather, the first three in the stack wouldn't.

So I'm burning off what I can - the base TD2E pages, and whatever I can fit of the reorganized TD1E data structure - using the last of my TDK spindle. It should last through the critical bits.

A backup is important for my peace of mind - I can offsite this stack of media at home or a friend's house and access it if needed. Which will be a load off my mind, to put it mildly. This is the first substantial ATC backup in almost two years, the first backup of the reorganized (merged) data structure, and more importantly, the first time TD2E has been moved to offline media.

Yeah, it's all backed up on other hard drives. Doing this will free one of them up for other material I need mirrored, which will free disk on my primary partition, which will, in turn, let me get back to portfolio grind. Which will lead to being gainfully re-employed, etceteras. It's the last bit of Old ATC Business that doesn't directly relate to the website - once this is off of my plate, I'll be out of excuses - and back into production.