Nothing is better than an original disc - but using a really good quality DVD-R is the key to making about as close to a perfect backup as you can get.
Good DVD-R include the following:
Ritek G04 (G05 tend to be a bit crappy)
Taiyo Yuden
Verbatim DataLife PLUS (standard DataLife suck ass!
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Also, today's modern disc dyes are made to perform better and be much more reliable when burned at their maximum write speed, and therefore slower burns on newer high speed media can cause problems. Burning slower is a bit of a mis-conception which is still with us from when recordable DVD media was in its infancy. Back then, it was true to burn slower, but nowadays it causes more problems by doing this.
