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The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 12:52 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > A CD is too small nowdays, that could be a reason, but DVDs are more
> > reasonable - still, you can imagine backing a 500 GB HD to... what, 100
> > DVDs?
>
> Many years ago, I used to back up my hard drive to floppies! Lessee now
> 500 GB / 1.44 MB = over 330,000 floppies!!!
Me too!
I still have backups in 360 Kb floppies, and I know they still work, they
are fully "restorable" - I know because I tried. I used PCtools Backup
(Microsoft on later days paid them for a limited version of the same
program to include with MsDos 5 or 6). I had a dual floppy pc and it was
able to backup using both drives alternatively, without me pressing a key.
It was so fast I barely had time to store a floppy and pick the next!
I wish we had some open backup software as reliable as that one was, but
using modern media, like dvds, for instance.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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