From c90cf38e70921aac454b860ba09188166ba04836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:21:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a hint about alternating media with -update_r --- xorriso/xorriso.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/xorriso/xorriso.1 b/xorriso/xorriso.1 index 57fc21d1..a2913231 100644 --- a/xorriso/xorriso.1 +++ b/xorriso/xorriso.1 @@ -1844,6 +1844,11 @@ Theoretical limits are higher but in practice the media deteriorate more early. It might also be that your operating system has a session limit with mount. Always have a blank media ready to perform a full backup in case the update attempt fails. An overview of sessions is given by option -toc. +.br +\fBBetter do not use your youngest backup for -update_r\fR. +Have at least two media which you use alternating. So only older backups +get endangered by the new write operation, while the newest backup is +stored safely on a different media. .br If you have enough re-useable media for a round-robin scheme then better do full backups with blank media each time. Blanking can be achieved by