KR> a tape is much more convenient, you just put all your data into
 KR> easily defined sub-directories and set up a batch job to back
 KR> them up. unless you only have a tiny amount of personal stuff
 KR> you wont get all of it onto one floppy, so you'll have to sit
 KR> and swap floppies where, with the tape, i can go and do
 KR> something else while the backup progresses.

  How reliable is the DAT tape? I've lost a few floppies, and at least
you don't have to contend with stretching and print-through, with
floppies.

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

 KR> its ok for the stuff that comes on install disks, i dont bother
 KR> to back that up, just the config files, its the stuff that you
 KR> generate that wont come back if you dont stash it somewhere.

  Learning pointers in C taught me all I want to know about glitches. 

  It might be the sort of stuff I save: documents and drawings, with a
little source code now. I've never lost one of those I wasn't able to
recover, either in the file itself or with a backup I could patch. I'd
rather use a second hard drive for the weekly backups and floppies for
the really important stuff... somewhere else, as you say.

Regards,
Bob
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