Data

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

The tedious part of this biz is writing the data to CD.  Last night's data
took 17 CDs and I have just finished writing them.  (11 PM in Chicago). 
Still, it is a necessary part of the project, and I don't trust using tape
which is probably the only other viable alternative.  But who knows if CDs
are a longer lasting archive than tape.  We will know in 20 years or so and
I won't be here to worry about it.  

Eventually I will have a go at DVDs.  They would be much easier since it
takes about 4-8 CDs per camera depending on the time of the year.  Thus one
DVD would do the trick for each camera and I would just have to load 1 DVD
per camera and go away.  As it is now I must sit there putting in a blank
CD ever 7 or 8 minutes.  Just enough work to keep me from doing something
else.  However, we do not yet seem to have working standard DVD archive
software for linux.  OK, I know it is supposed to exist, but I stop reading
when I come to "Kernel Patch".  But I think it must be close.  I hope there
will soon be an xdvdroast.

Tom Droege