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<tr><td valign="top" width="1%">·</td><td colspan=2><font size="-1"><a href="howtos60.html">The big picture</a></font></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="1%">·</td><td colspan=2><font size="-1"><a href="howtos10.html">Scanning media for errors</a></font></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="1%">·</td><td colspan=2><font size="-1"><a href="howtos20.html">Putting error correction data on a separate file</a></font></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top"></td><td>-</td><td><font size="-1">Archiving error correction files</font></td></tr>
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<tr><td><font size="+1"><b>Creating error correction files</b></font></td>
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<h3>Tips for archival of error correction files</h3>
CD/DVD/BD are currently among the most cost-effective exchangeable
mass storage media. Therefore you are probably considering them
for storing error correction files.<p>
Nothing is wrong with doing so, but be aware that your data and protective
error correction files are kept on media with equal reliability.
When you encounter read errors on a data medium
it is likely that the medium containing the respective error correction files
has also gone defective. After all both media have been written at the same time,
and they have the same aging characteristics.
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<td>This might come at a surprise, but it can not be guaranteed that an
error correction file remains usable when it is stored on a defective medium.
See the old documentation for an <a href="http://dvdisaster.net/legacy/en/background20.html">explanation of the technical background</a>.
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Therefore it is important to protect error correction files just as if
they were normal data. To be more specific,
the medium containing error correction files must be protected with
error correction data as well. Here are two ways of doing this:
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<li>Storing error correction files on separate media:<p>
Use additional media just for keeping the error correction files.
If you use no more than 80% per medium for error correction files
it can
be <a href="howtos30.html">augmented with error correction data</a>.
This allows you to recover the medium if you run into problems
reading the error correction files at a later time.<p></li>
<li>Storing error correction files on the next medium in sequence:<p>
Maybe you are using media for an incremental backup strategy. In that
case you could collect files until the first medium can be filled.
Write that medium as usual and create an error correction file for it.
Include that error correction file into the backup set which will go
onto the second medium. When the second medium has been written, write
the error correction file for it onto the third medium and so on.
This way all media in the chain are protected with error correction
files (with the ecc file for the last medium residing on hard disk until
another medium is written).<p>
Of course Murphys Law may strike and result in all media of the chain
becoming defective. In that case you need to recover all media, starting
with the most recent one ;-)
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<i> Copyright 2004-2009 Carsten Gnörlich.<br>
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Mandriva
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2010.0
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i586
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media
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contrib-release
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