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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: ZIP Drive and Backup Software
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.jq06@burner.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 04:53:12 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Sat 23-Mar-1996 11:27p, Laurens van Klaveren wrote:
-
- LK> 1... My WorkBench partition-backup. Just copied. Very nice if one file on
- LK> my HD turns out to be corrupt.
-
- Also might be nice: Make it a bootable disk. If your boot partition goes, all
- you have to do is pop in your Zip copy and go to town.
-
- LK> 2... Games-ZiP(s), sample-ZiP, module-ZiP, etc, etc. Aren't ZiP drives
- LK> nice for storing all stuff you regularly use? Uncompressed? Ready to run?
-
- Postscript fonts.. :)
-
- LK> Does it really matter if you use backup-software or not? In some cases,
- LK> it's a matter of taste, in other cases (read point 2) it's better to copy
- LK> files.
-
- I tend to agree. There are much cheaper ways to backup important files. The
- Zip is halfway inbetween a hard drive and a cheap tape drive because,
- depending on how you put the data on there, it remains accessible and useable
- without having to 'resotore' to a piece of HD space.. so the Zip lends it's
- self perfectly for "archiving" as opposed to backup.
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-