Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should back up your CD-Rs now

Re:Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should ba... by KozmoNau7 on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:51AM (#20201072)

I have a CD-R of "alternatively obtained software" from December 1995, which I keep around mostly out of curiosity. It's got some forgettable old games and MIDI sequencing software on it, nothing interesting at all.

But I'm wondering when it'll actually start deteriorating and ultimately fail. So far it seems to still be OK.

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Re:Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should ba... by unimpressive on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:19AM (#20201492)

I would honestly just copy it as an iso with something like dd.

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Re:Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should ba... by KozmoNau7 on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:44AM (#20201944)

There's nothing of any particular value on it. I'm keeping it around as an experiment, to see how long it'll last before the data is unreadable.

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