silly me. Someone finally told me the I was identified only as "Yahoo"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yahoo" <pwgrant@yahoo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
> with removable IDE kits being so cheap, one could even be stored offsite.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
>
>
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:52:37PM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, Bill.
> > > I have another cold swap tray in my box and a spare HD (I think it has
> > > W98 on it) and I'll use that. I've heard of failures with tape drives
> > > but I thought they were still used widely, especially to backup
> > > databases on raw partitions. I may still get a cheap tape drive just
to
> > > play with it and see for myself how unreliable it is.
> > >
> >
> > My experience with tapes has been uneven. I still use them, but I don't
> > trust them. I've had too many tapes eat bytes and then be unwilling to
> > spit them back out properly, just when I needed the bytes. Including
> > under DOS and Windows. Plus tapes and drives are expensive when you get
> > them in the size capable of backing up modern high-capacity hard drives.
> > And they take a helluva long time to do a full backup on a large drive.
> >
> > As I said, I do use tapes, but a better solution is to mirror your hard
> > drive to another hard drive for daily backups. It's very fast, and the
> > likelihood of both drives going down at the same time is low. Then you
> > can do regular tape backups for something more transportable and
> > permanent.
> >
> > Paul
>
>
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