17 DVDs later....

And all my music is backed up. Again.

In a fit of anality, I decided I wanted to embed the cover art in my music. I have roughly 10,000 songs, so it took me a long while to get through them. Not all songs have art, mind you, but about 9,000 did. Google's image search and Amazon are amazingly easy to find what you are looking for.

Of course, I don't want to go through that again, so I backed it all up. 64 gb or so, spread out over 17 DVDs. It took me literally since Sunday to complete it since it takes about 70 min to burn at 2x. But I will rest easier knowing it is all set and ready for me should I have a catastrophic disk failure. (Which happened to our house server 2 weeks ago; all data lost even though I used RAID 1 which is supposed to prevent these sorts of things. Oh well.)

M. is surprisingly easy going about these things. I figure he thinks that I am a bad sys admin (I would say mediocre, but when it comes to sys-admining, being mediocre is pretty much the same as bad - one failure and that's all she wrote.) and has stopped putting a lot of faith in my gadgetry, so when a system tanks, he isn't all that crushed because he has his own backups. But then again, he developed those habits after re-formatting his Dell for the 18th time.

I really hope that MP3s last forever - I hope to god I never half to re-rip them again.

On a tangental note; I have to say that I didn't buy a CD for the first time last week because it said "Copy Protected." Well, no sale buddy, because I don't use CDs, I use MP3s. Their loss.