I use a cd burner for backups of small systems, media is cheap and if you back up data only with compression you get a lot onto a cd. Tapes are better for larger systems but require more money for media and are slower to access. The average ide burner works well under Linux these days and I have found the liteon ones to work rather nicely. I have an LTN32123S which is a 40x32x12 writer and it goes like a charm. Regards, Kerry. 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 > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
