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Though not with the data you're distributing, I've had similar problems.   
I regularly and frequently back my business data up onto DVDs.  It's a  
good thing I checked, because the software was reporting a good burn but I  
couldn't later access the supposedly backed-up data ... until I changed to  
brand name disks.  The off-brands will work ... sometimes, but when my  
livelihood can depend on the reliability of a DVD (albeit worst case  
scenario), the extra few bucks a brand name stack costs is well worth it.   
In fact, cheap at twice the cost.

Actually, I like my son-in-law's solution best:  a racked terrabyte server  
in the basement, with the disks mirrored.  And yet another copy encrypted  
and stashed on the Web somewhere.  Takes all the fun out of hermetically  
sealed caves, though.


On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:24:24 -0800, Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net>  
wrote:

> ...
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> Also, I want to hear from others about the problems they had with their
> DVD being bad. I've read elsewhere about DVD's from some manufacturers
> (not brands) being of low quality so would like some first hand reports.
> ...


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