I have a couple hundred zip disks and have only had 2 screw up in five years. based on my experience I don't think that you really should worry about zip disk problems, the real difficulties were from early production. However no matter how wasteful it seems at about a dollar per CD-R even if you use one a day the cost for backup materials is about $360.00 a year. This seems a small price to pay for data integrity. If it really bothers someone to waste 600+ meg. of storage to insure that the 10 - 20K of irreplaceable data is saved you can spend a bit more and buy credit card sized CD-R's which hold only about 20 meg. of data, a smaller waste of storage but...
At 10:07 AM 7/27/2002 -0700, you wrote: > What is the best system currently for backing up small amount of >business stuff frequently (i.e. everyday). My girlfriends office was broken >into, they stole the computer, and the secretary had not backed up anything >in over a month. They need to back up daily about 10 - 20 K (yes, K!) of >data. It seems rather wasteful to use cd's, and zip diskd are so notoriously >unreliable that I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy. Are tape >drives still in use? Floppies? Taking pictures of each screen with a K2 and >a supertak 50mm f1.2 onto Kodachrome 25? Any suggestions... > > >C >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
