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- From: hab@engr.ucf.edu (Hubert Bahr)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Stabilizing Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.001334.16891@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 00:13:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.124211.5861@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug11.203132.11397@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug12.013810.6498@NCoast.ORG>
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- Organization: engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando
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- In article <1992Aug12.013810.6498@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) writes:
- >As quoted from <1992Aug11.203132.11397@crd.ge.com> by davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen):
- >+---------------
- >| 2nd machines, or ethernet, or anything like that, and are backing up to
- >| floppy, a solution which stops being practical about 20MB, and stops
- >| being possible about 60MB.
- >+---------------
- >
- >Well, I backed up a 200MB (100MB + SuperStor...) hard drive to floppies
- >Sunday. It's possible, but no fun.
- >
- >++Brandon (hacking on the cheap)
- >
- >--
- >Brandon S. Allbery, KF8NH [44.70.4.88]: allbery@NCoast.ORG, bsa@telotech.com
- >Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)
-
- for those of us who used to back up with paper tape backing up with 1.4 Meg
- floppies for 640Meg is possible but somewhat time Consuming. Actually with
- planning It is incremental with only 20 to 60 MB being needed on a routine
- basis. I'm guilty of opting for more disk space rather than jumping to
- a tape drive. And I used to walk to school in bliz....
-
- Hubert Bahr hab@engr.ucf.edu
-