Burning vs Drag & Drop

Does burning data to DVD+RW make it any more robust than dragging it
to a formatted DVD+RW disk? Is there any higher degree of error
checking or general reliability? (I'm assuming there is from CD-RW
experience)

I'm using these disks as an interim bckup for some projects that are
in a state of flux; when finished they'll go on to DVD-R.

Is DVD-R regarded as being any more reliable for data backup than
DVD+R?

I know DVD-RAM is considered more reliable overall, and my drive also
does RAM, but I seem to have more problems with them. Transferring
large files I get a "network problem" message, then the data can't be
deleted, then formatting the disks fails.

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Clinging to sanity, Karl Engel mumbled in his beard:

Does burning data to DVD+RW make it any more robust than dragging it
to a formatted DVD+RW disk? Is there any higher degree of error
checking or general reliability? (I'm assuming there is from CD-RW
experience)

I guess this depends on what program you use for burining. Burning might be
more reliable, especially since I know that the burn:// target of nautilus
is quite a new feature and might thus not be so well tested as other
methods of writing to DVD+RW (or whatever writeable medium you use.)

cheers
- -- vbi

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