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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: Floppy drives (was A4000's with High Density Drives!)
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 09:42:31 GMT
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
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- : 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.
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- : 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.
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- Backing up from one hard drive to another is still a risk. It leaves you
- open to a virus or a rouge program trashing your data out. It's much better
- to backup to a large removable media drive (Zip, Tape, Syquest, etc).
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- Chris Hall
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