Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:35 +0000 (GMT)
From   : debounce@... (Greg Cook)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

On Wed, 14/10/09, me@... <me@...> wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2009, at 14:37, Joel
> Rowbottom wrote:
> 
> > One of the thrusts of my talk last week at WROCC was
> 'preserving? 
> > data' from
> > old floppies - that particular cut fails somewhat when
> you start? 
> > talking
> > about ADFS images, and the only failing (if that's the
> correct word? 
> > which I
> > doubt) of the Datacentre.
> 
> It's not really a failing though, is it? Because you can
> just TreeCopy? 
> into a folder on the internal CF, and then again back onto
> another? 
> floppy, and you're done.

Yuck!  Too much munging for archiving fiends like me.

All sorts get lost that way: data outside files, hardlinks, file
order, implementation-dependent bits of metadata; thus harder to
guarantee a faithful or functional copy.  Fine for personal
floppies, definitely wouldn't do with commercial titles or discs
I'm imaging for someone else.

Greg Cook
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