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MiniDV As A Backup Medium
MiniDVfanatic writes "Last year I read an article in Slashdot about using MiniDV as a backup medium. Now I've found a recent article about the same topic in bulmalug.net. It's in Spanish, and it just talks about dvbackup, the same tool recommended in some old Slashdot posts, but it adds some interesting ideas such as data compression and interleaved Reed Solomon for error detection and correction, using a tool called rsbep. According to the author's tests, this should let you backup 13GB in a cheap MiniDV tape in a safe manner, and restore it all later. Example commands provided, with simple workarounds for slow machines which cannot feed the tape at 3.6MB per second." You can fish the translation, for those who need - I was able to get by with my high school Spanish. Pretty cool stuff.