Charlie wrote:

CDRW discs, especially when used with packet writing, are not a
reliable backup mechanism.

According to Mike Richter (Hit&Run), the supposedly flaky, fragile,
forgetful, unreliable cd-rw media was good enough for BACKUP, of all
things, even when combined with supposedly flaky, fragile, faulty,
unreliable packet "format":

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From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

You may back up ...to a DCD-formatted erasable.
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