On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Below is a sampling of disks recorded between 2001 and 2009. It is > likely that the disks of the same type were from the same package > because I don't use many disks. They were stored without much care, > but in a spaces tolerable to humans for reasonable periods. > > Imation CD-R recorded 2003/12/29 readable > Imation CD-R recorded 2004/01/02 recoverable errors > Imation CR-R recorded 2001/12/18 recoverable errors > Imation CD-R recorded 2005/07/15 recoverable errors > Imation CD-R recorded 2001/12/24 recoverable errors > TDK DVD-R recorded 2006/02/05 recoverable errors > TDK DVD-R recorded 2009/09 unrecoverable errors. The > edges of the disk have a strange faded coloration. > TDK DVD-R recorded 2007/10/07 readable > Memorex CD-R recorded 2005 unrecoverable errors > > > Probably a good idea to use something like RAR with parity. I know I have downloaded some multi-segment binaries in RAR format from usenet with several missing segments and as long as I had the parity file set it could successfully recover the entire archive.
