backup media advice

[Amanda Lee]

Why not to CDR?  Those are by far less expensive and likely hold more than
my old Colorado Systems Tape backup for DOS and it may hold 100MB/can't
even remember! ha!

It's just collecting dust until I send to a charity of something...

Amanda Lee



On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Johan Bergström wrote:

> The most effective backup is tape with OBDR, and you need a backup program
> that can handle it such as Arkeia or BRU. OBDR is
> OneButtonDisasterRecovery and it means that you write down an image to
> tape and make it bootable, if the system crashes and you cant boot it,
> just put the tape in and it will reover everything. The problem is that
> tape drives is probably the most expensive choice aswell. I'm satisfied
> with keeping a backup copy of my most important files on an other
> computer, ie an other harddrive. But as I said, if its really important to
> you, go for a tapedrive.
>
> Johan
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, 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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