Hello, Greg.

Wednesday October 21 2009 at 21:30, you wrote to me:

 GG> :)  Yeh been a loooonng time since I used a floppy.  Even on the Atari
 GG> 800 people are using SD cards now.  But if I want to back up, I
 GG> generally use DVD-R.  Zip disks are just clunky.  But zip disks (which
 GG> I used on Mac and ST) where good for the time.

For me, I still use ZIPs because a) I have over 50 ZIP disks (half of them
still shrink-wrapped in their case) and b) all of my systems can use Zip
drives.  The BBS machine doesn't have USB or DVD capabilities (nor will it
ever; not putting that kind of money into the BBS).  I'm also only backing
up 10-20MB at a time, if that, and the Zip disks didn't cost me anything.
:)

I actually backup the BBS nightly using tapes (DDS-2 4/8GB).  I still use
tapes because I've been using them for about 22 years now (one of my first
jobs was a tape backup operator).  I get sh-t from people in Fidonet all
the time for using tapes yet when I need them, they're there and reliable. 
I can backup the entire BBS (BBS software, all utilities, filebase and
messagebase) into a single tape with room to spare.  Still can't do that
with a DVD unless it's a double-sided one.

Besides, why am I going to invest in all of this fancy backup stuff when
I'm running technology that's two decades-plus old anyhow? :)

The point being: making backups.  No matter how you store it, it's
important to always, always have backups.

Later,
Sean

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