Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-28 Thread Barry Scott
> On 28 Oct 2021, at 05:36, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 28/10/2021 12:14, Tim via users wrote: >> On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 06:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Still a USB thumb drive is much better >>> and more reliable than optical storage. >> I'm more confident the other way around. >> > > Maybe I

Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/10/2021 12:14, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 06:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Still a USB thumb drive is much better and more reliable than optical storage. I'm more confident the other way around. Maybe I'm one of the few lucky ones?  I have 2 thumb drives of 128GB from

Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-27 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 06:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Still a USB thumb drive is much better > and more reliable than optical storage. I'm more confident the other way around. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 13 17:20:51 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unex

Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 28/10/2021 00:09, home user wrote: If the problem were the drive (or dust), then wouldn't the April disc have the  same problems, and wouldn't the October disc not work in Disks? Not necessarily.  Remember there are multiple lasers in the drive. If the one responsible for writing is gettin

Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-27 Thread home user
On 10/26/21 10:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 26/10/2021 22:44, home user wrote: (fedora-34; gnome) The evening before doing a Fedora upgrade, I do a user data back-up. I do it as a data project in K3b to burn a DVD/Blu-ray (BD-R).  I always "test" the back-up immediately after it's done. On

Re: partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 26/10/2021 22:44, home user wrote: (fedora-34; gnome) The evening before doing a Fedora upgrade, I do a user data back-up.  I do it as a data project in K3b to burn a DVD/Blu-ray (BD-R).  I always "test" the back-up immediately after it's done. On April 07, 2021, I did such a back-up.  I u

partially invisible back-up DVD.

2021-10-26 Thread home user
(fedora-34; gnome) The evening before doing a Fedora upgrade, I do a user data back-up.  I do it as a data project in K3b to burn a DVD/Blu-ray (BD-R).  I always "test" the back-up immediately after it's done. On April 07, 2021, I did such a back-up.  I upgraded from f-32 to f-33 the next da