Isaac Abraham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At 09:22 11/05/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Are you saying you haven't made a backup for over five months?
> >
> >Computers are not secure data storage devices, if it's worth keeping,
> >it's worth backing up.
>
> I am in a similar dilemma. The only method of backing up currently for me
> is on floppy disk, but even that I can't do now because my a1200's fd
> controller has died (or the fd is dead). What are the best ways to backup?
buy a nice new hard drive and copy everything to it. put this in a secure
safe somewhere. okay there arestil lrisks involved, but ...
> At the moment I can think of:
>
> floppy (slow, awkward, but cheap in that no new devices required)
is what i used when i was at uni (okay i used a high density floppy drive,
hd disks bought at �2 for ten, and time i should have been revising!)
> ez/ zip drives (quick, quite cheap, but parallel version not compatible)
then get a scsi/ide version then!! About �60 (IIRC) for the ide zip drive,
and you don't have to buy official iomega zip disks ... then there's the
new Zip250.
> tape streamers (slow, sequential, but cheap)
and slow. and you forgot slow. i don't actually have one, but i think
they're slow.
> cdr (cheap per mb, but WORM)
80p to backup 650mb makes it worth being WORM. Hell, you've (well I've) got
several copies of the same things backed up, so if something goes wrong you
should be able to go to an older version of a backup andstill have
something there too!! I only backup once every one or 2 months, but it's
cheap enough (even for students ;-) to use for a weekly backup! I just
don't have the time ....
> online storage (slow, limit to number of mbs to store)
very slow, and very limited (unless you happen to be sleeping with one of
the uni system admins ;-)
> what's the best way?
see the above comment about the spare harddrive in a safe.
> also off topic : i am getting an a4000 soon to replace/supplement the
> a1200. does the a4000 have a 3.5" ide interface, or should i get one? if
> it's a 2.5" interface, can i use my old 4 way 3.5" interface that is in the
> a1200 now? it's one i bougt from power, it's a buffered interface one.
Right, it comes with a standard 3.5" adaptor, but unless you buy a splitter
(about �20 from eg Eyetech) you can only use 2 devices. that's all you can
reasonably fit in a desktop unless you hack bits of teh case away like I
did ;-)
Oh, and the A4k interface is already buffered, that's an A1200 shortcoming.
However, like I said, you can only use 2 devices without the splitter
(no comments about Judeans People's front please ....)
> Yours,
No your not!
Kev
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Kevin "Redvers" Fairhurst - ICQ 14701124
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