BL> I still think the best backup strategy is:

 BL> 1. Use two hard discs and backup the whole bloody lot every
 BL> week.

 BL> 2. Back up all work onto floppies (2-sets) and spread them
 BL> around.

 KR> i bought a qic-80 tape drive for $199. obviously you cant
 KR> backup a gigabyte size drive with it, but when it comes down to
 KR> it, there really aint a huge amount of irreplaceble data on
 KR> most systems, and you can get several backups of that sort of
 KR> data on 1 350 meg tape. massing the data to be backed up in
 KR> particular sub-directories or partitions makes it a lot easier.

  For mine, the only point in using a tape backup is when you backup
the *whole* thing. Data is best kept on floppies unless you generate
huge amounts of data (your scanned pistures). I don't see much point 
in having several generations of backup on the *same* tape.

  I don't think there is much you can do to protect against a glitch
you backup. You still have to find it, so you may as well find it on 
the original install discs, and reinstall.
  
Regards,
Bob
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