On (11 Feb 96) Bob Lawrence wrote to Frank Malcolm...





 FM> Yes, except that this specific comment...



 FM> I invite your comments. And anyone else's.



 BL>   I still think the best backup strategy is:



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

 BL> present, I have the new 540Mb and the old 250Mb as the backup I run

 BL> compressed to give about 1.6 or 400Mb. When I get 400Mb on my new disc

 BL> I'll buy a gigabyte one, throw out the 250Mb one, and go again.



 BL>   This allows for the most common problem of a stuffed hard disc or

 BL> something. If you go on holidays, you can always remove the backup

 BL> hard drive and hide it somewhere.



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



 BL>   This allows for some bastard stealing the computer, or the drive

 BL> rooting files.



i bought a qic-80 tape drive for $199. obviously you cant backup a

gigabyte size drive with it, but when it comes down to it, there really

aint a huge amount of irreplaceble data on most systems, and you can get

several backups of that sort of data on 1 350 meg tape. massing the data

to be backed up in particular sub-directories or partitions makes it a

lot easier.



                        Keith



... All I want is a warm bed, a kind word, and a 500Mhz CPU.



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