So it may be a few years.... Remember reading only a few years ago that new technology was being reduced to practice that would produce a factor of 10 increase in areal density on hard drives at roughly the same manufacturing cost. There were a few minor snags to be worked out. That result has arrived We still pay bit more than $200 for a mainstream IDE hard drive. Back about 1996, that got me a 4.3 GB. If I watch the paper, I can get a 40 GB drive for even a few dollars less.
Hope my tape drive holds out until I can afford one of those big DVD-RW drives and media. There's still much we can do to avoid grief by a bit of thought in partitioning and backing up. Worked a contract one place that did nightly incremental backups and weekly full backups with five or six weekly tapes in rotation. One day they needed to find a file that had last been used three or four months back. It was not anywhere -- nobody had thought to keep an occasional full backup for permanent archive. The file needed was a reference, the 'zero' point values to be subtracted from current readings to convert to the units in which the data was reported, i.e. the baseline. Standard procedure, but something slipped through the net. This machine got noisy last week. Thought it might have a fan or hard drive getting ready to go. So I copied my bookmarks and address book to a floppy. Not big files, but not in the data partition I back up regularly to CD. I would have been in deep trouble without them. Do you know where your address book and bookmarks are backed up? Choppy At 12:51 AM 11/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >This is from "The Harrow Report" which used to be >known as "The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing". > >http://www.theharrowgroup.com/ > >John Hebert > >------------------------------------ >DVD Backup - Follow-up. ================================================ 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. ================================================
