On Monday 23 February 2015 21.54:54 midi-pascal wrote:
> Sorry to intrude but...
>
> Did you ever thought using USB keys?
> It costs (almost) nothing, it is fast and you can rewrite the medium as
> often as you want!
> Here in canada you can find a 64Gb USB stick in supermarkets under CAN
> 50.00$
> I have made my backups on USB sticks (not even compressing the data)
> with rsync for years without any problem.
> I bought 4 64Gb sticks and rotate them.
> I had to restore some times and never had any problem.
>
> Just wanted to add a view on an easy storage medium here...
>
> midi-pascal

No reson to be sorry. But I've seen to many USB keys die, they are cheap and 
unliable. M-Discs are said to be good for 500 years... although I'll be dead 
long before anyone knows if that's true :)

Thierry