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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Floppy drives (was A4000's with High Density Drives!)
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 08:12:12 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dkvcs$qgd@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Backing up to floppies
- Keywords: Better backup devices
-
- In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960116032448.26786A-100000@mail.inhb.co.nz>,
- Ross Deeley <rossdee@inhb.co.nz> wrote:
- >On 15 Jan 1996, George Noel wrote:
- >
- >> Drives - try running a BBS without a floppy drive.
-
- >ALthough I have 3 floppy drives on my BBS machine, I don't use them to
- >'run' the BBS as such - I certainly don't bother backing up to floppies.
-
- Neither do I for that matter, I meant mainly for backup purposes.
-
- I realize the mistake I made by mentioning this a little too late. :)
-
- >(The last time I backed up the BBS (not the file areas but everything
- >else) it was about 26 megs, and I don't fancy backing up that to floppies
- >all the time. For backups I use other hard drives (heaps of partitions on
- >my system) and while it is a possiblity that the whole hard drive could
- >go down, its more likely that one partition could get corrupted and the
- >others would be unaffected. (And for ultimate saftey I copy the backup
-
- I wouldn't back up one partition to another partition on the same drive,
- that would be too much of a risk if as you say, the whole drive goes.
-
- >file to a ZIP.
-
- I have no experience with the ZIP drive yet and have only read about them
- but a preferred method for mass storage would be from hard drive to
- another hard drive. For small backups, floppies are still ok.
-
- >I certainly would never dream of trying to backup several hundreds of
- >megs of file areas to floppies, but ZIP's are practical for that.
-
- True.
-
- >> I really hope the new A1200+ can still use a Hard Drive internal and a
- >> floppy drive, preferrably the floppy still standard or if not, at least the
- >> one you add to it afterwards being recognized as DH0:
- >
- >I think you mean DF0: - DH0: is an older convention for the boot hard
- >drive (Why did C= go to HD0: and HD1: in the 1200? I guess we'll never know.
-
- Yes, of course I meant DF0:, sorry about that, with all this talk of Hard
- Drives etc.. :)
-
- -=*George*=-
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