Re: linuxsingle

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>]

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On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 07:25 -0700, terry white wrote:
> ... ciao:

> on "4-13-2005" "Michael H. Warfield" writ:

> : Burn a bootable CD-Rom with your boot system.

>     it is a 'real' mistake to "assume" cd-r media a forever storage
> solution.  a search for 'sunlight' at "theregister.com" offered among
> other answers, the following:

>      "CD-Rs deliver degrading experience

>         Back to tape?Monday 1st September 2003 20:32 GMT"

>     the jist of it, suggest that cd-r media not a carefree solution ...

	Didn't claim that it was.  Neither are flash drives (limited rewrite
cycles, thousands, but still limited) or regular hard drives (just got
done recovering after several 250 Gig SATA drives developed flaws and
went dain bramaged on me).

	It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep a backup of that boot system but it
should be so generic that it should be possible to reproduce.  But the
"key" is the key!  Loose that, and you are toast.  So, yes, you should
have a backup of the USB key or where ever you store that key (you can
also use an entered passphrase) and then protect those backups,
especially of the keys.

	Mike
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