I would use CD-R or DVD-+R.  Do not use re-writeable media like CD-RW or DVD-+RW. 
 They are less stable over time.  Keep all optical media in a dark place, and at 
normal room temperatures.  High temperatures can destroy them.

for long-term storage, avoid all magnetic media, like floppies, ZIP, external USB 
drives.  However, for a fast, convenient shorter-term backup, an external USB 2.0 
disk can be very handy.

Avoid USB flash drives.  These have a realtively short life, compared to even magnetic 
disks.

Think about an off-site backup, such as keeping backups of home PC files at work, 
with a trusted friend, or in a safe-desposit box.

I would not bother with ISO 9660 format.  Although that is a least-common denominator 
of DOS, UNIX, etc, most modern operating systems can read the normal data CD format 
called Joliet, which supposrts long file names.  For example, it is readable by MAC, 
LINUX (e.g., KNOPPIX, Ubuntu), Windows 95 and above.







On Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 8:38 am, Mert wrote:

>There is no guarantee my data will be on my Win98 forever if I have issues with 
it. 

>I want to keep my data forever, so what would be the best form of back-up on an 
old 

>OS like Win98?  

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