My old tape drive took 2 hours to backup a 1 gig hd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:41 PM Subject: Re: backup media advice > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
