I have a zip drive and cd-rom drive myself. I use cdrws to backup selected files. That way if my 2 hds go bad, I can simply reinstall the os, copy the backuped files, and bingo. Greg On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:13:26PM -0600, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup