Why not to CDR? Those are by far less expensive and likely hold more than my old Colorado Systems Tape backup for DOS and it may hold 100MB/can't even remember! ha! It's just collecting dust until I send to a charity of something... Amanda Lee On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Johan Bergstr?m wrote: > The most effective backup is tape with OBDR, and you need a backup program > that can handle it such as Arkeia or BRU. OBDR is > OneButtonDisasterRecovery and it means that you write down an image to > tape and make it bootable, if the system crashes and you cant boot it, > just put the tape in and it will reover everything. The problem is that > tape drives is probably the most expensive choice aswell. I'm satisfied > with keeping a backup copy of my most important files on an other > computer, ie an other harddrive. But as I said, if its really important to > you, go for a tapedrive. > > Johan > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
