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- From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.161548.4665@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:15:48 EST
- References: <rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu><1992Jul21.141820.24239@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <JEFF.92Jul21150244@claw.clearpoint.com>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <JEFF.92Jul21150244@claw.clearpoint.com>, jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack) writes:
- >
- > I paid $45 for my Archive tape drive (used). It has worked fine for
- > about a year, and the parent company is still in business. However,
- > it is old technology, and they do not want to support it anymore.
- > They are coming out with OS/2 drivers for their newer (DAT) drives.
- > So you see that the stability of the company is not the only thing
- > that determines the support.
- >
- > If I had 10 386's, I would still only buy 1 tape drive. I would then
- > buy 10 ethernet cards (about $100 per) and the software to run them.
- > Then I would remotely access the machine with the tape drive.
- >
- > I have a 200 Meg hard drive. The OS and other utilities take up about
- > 60 Meg. The rest has to be backed up. I do not feel like pumping
- > around 100 floppies into my machine every day. Of course I have not
- > backed it up since I built OS/2 on it, and I do not like that
- > situation either.
- > --
- >
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > |Jeff Griglack |"Hey, you talking to me or are you just practicing|
- > |jeff@claw.clearpoint.com | for one of those performances you do?" |
- > |jeff@fang.clearpoint.com | -- Lori Anderson |
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Here Here!
-
- I've got a Mountain QIC-60 internal and a pile of tapes sitting there idle.
- Anyone coming out with decent backup software is going to get my business.
- Before getting the drive I used to do the floppy shuffle myself, and the
- first time I used CP Backup under Windows, stuck one tape in the drive and
- archived my entire hard disk in the background while working (or playing
- games ;-) on something else, I was sold.
-
- The one drawback was a rather sever performance hit and an inability to
- access the floppy drives (floppy controler interface) while backing up.
- Now the performance problem ought to be something that OS/2 excels at.
- This is based on my test of formatting both floppies while downloading
- a file and editinga in the forground. Try that under Windoze!
-
- /Doug
-