backup media advice

[Kerry Hoath]

I  use a cd burner for backups of small systems, media is
cheap and if you back up data only with compression you get a lot onto a cd.
Tapes are better for larger systems but require more money for media
and are slower to access. The average ide burner works well
under Linux these days and I have found the liteon ones
to work rather nicely. I have an
LTN32123S which is a 40x32x12 writer and it goes like a charm.

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:13:26PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I would like to know what forms of backup people have found most effective
> as I have decided it is time to invest in something to do this. I have a
> 20gb hard drive but am presently only using about 2gb. I want to be able
> to recover from a total disaster but also want to be able to get back
> files or groups of files in case of a partial corruption or accidental
> deletion.
> The options I know about are:  cdrom, tape, another hard disk, or zip
> drive.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> 				Cheryl
> 
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