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- Subject: Re: Backup to Zip Drive
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 20:40:17 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Glenn Young (gyoung@central.co.nz) wrote:
- : Has anyone managed to use a Zip drive for backing-up? I am using Ami-Back, on
- : an A500 (512k chip) with a GVP A500HD + 4 megs memory, with the Zip drive on
- : the SCSI port. When I select the Zip drive as the destination I get the
- : message "Memory Error, Cannot Allocate Memory". This even happens when only
- : one file is selected for backup.
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- : Any help, advice, ideas gratefully received!
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- Call me a complete idiot if you wish, but I backed up my hard drive
- onto 3 ZIP disks with SID2. I just told it to copy all of DH0: to ZIP: and
- swapped Zip disks every few minutes. Recovering from the Zip disks was easy
- as all it required was a copy ZIP:#? all to dh0:
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- : <sb>
- : <tsb>[ Glenn Young ]
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- : <sb>gyoung@central.co.nz
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- : I am Hamlet of Borg: prepare to be, or not to be...
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- Philip C. Tsao
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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