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. ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================