Jazz is a bit small for a backup.  Already have CD-RW, but want to backup
a full partition and be able to restore booting from a floppy.   I've had good
service from ZIP drives -- have a parallel port one and two IDE internal ones.

Wonder if anyone has experience with Veritas backup software.  Getting the
drive and accompanying software qualifies for an upgrade to Backup MyPc,
formerly Veritas Backup Executive, for about $30.  That would deal with the
concern raised by Tim Fournet about propietary format.  Have a few unreadable
diskettes written by Central Point Backup in the old, old days when I had
an internal drive that used the floppy controller.  It wouldn't work in a newer
machine, and the software doesn't seem to work with the floppies in the newer
machine, either.

I expect that within 5 years some form of DVD-R will be hardly more expensive
than CD-R these days, at which point the tape will be history.   For the moment
I can get the drive and few tapes for no more than $100, and maybe even
cheaply upgrade to a good backup program that will work with CD-RW as well.

Choppy

At 05:42 PM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I paid around $80 for the 2Gig Ditto Tape backup that I had.  The tapes were
>close to $30 a piece.  Junk I say.  That stuff was junk.  A seperate hard
>drive sounds a lot better to me.  Or possibly a Jaz drive.


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