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by wesley.chin

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I have heard someone suggest the archiving of ISO images of multi-seat/site licensed software CDs as a safeguard against data loss.

Is this advisable? One the one hand, if the original CDs are lost, then the means to create a replacement CD is readily available. But then on the other hand, if culprit was to access the archive, then the piracy could happen. With that, would having ISO archive be wise?

Hmmm.....

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by older mycroft

Someone detonated a bomb in your building.

If you are going to look at the 'dark side' you've gotta look all the way!

Lighten up - what makes you think you'd be foolish enough to have online access to the ISOs?

by wesley.chin

Then by that token, it would could be lost anywhere, aliens could destroy it in space.

You bring up a good point.

by older mycroft

No !!?

Neither do I.

Neither did I consider it wise, when I suggested the idea of the ISO archive to you. By the way, thanks for calling me "[i]someone[/i]".

Your ISO archive would not contain the COA information files for the disc images, would it? Therefore what would these 'alien culprits' achieve by stealing the ISOs, Mmm?

by jaqui

with making iso archives of original disks and storing them on hard disk.

hard disk failure / corruption.

which is NOT as common as a lot of people think, but it does happen. so put them on a redundant array, that is backed up as well.

if you are going to duplicate the disks in case of problems, make sure that storage media problems don't kill the duplicates.

by wesley.chin

I had used "someone" because I did not remember who had suggested the ISO archive to me.

COA? Do you mean that the CD created from the ISO would not operate correctly? What good is the CD in that case?

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