[ale] quick, simple backup

[zeb]

I have been using a Castlewood Orb external drive for backup for a couple of 
years now.  I use the 2.2 GB disks.  I have had no trouble with them, and 
they get daily use.  I had a minor mechanical problem which Tech Support 
walked me through fixing by e-mail.  They appear to the system to be another 
floppy disk.  I have used them for both Win98SE and Slack 7 thru 9.1
   Haven't check lately, but there used to be internal and external drives, 
both SCSI (which I have) and IDE.  I think they now have USB and sizes to 5 
GB.

On Monday 03 November 2003 08:19 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I saw something on TechTV about CD media not lasting very long.  They
> tested media that failed after 6 months.  Maybe good quality media can
> be purchased at the store that will be of archive quality.  Your backup
> system may not require the cds to last 6 months.  Archive system will.
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 12:01, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > 	I'd go with CD-RW. You can add  one session to the CD-RW media for
> > a daily back-ups. Four or 5 CD-RW media cover one-month
> > worth of backups. After one-month, you start to reuse 1st CD-RW then the
> > 2nd in the CDRW set.  Do the same multi-session for weekly or monthly
> > backup, only this time on  a CD-R media.
> > This scheme is pretty  scalable too, considering the
> > current backup is 100MB vs a cdrw media of 700M.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> >
> > #All:
> > #
> > #Client's Travan tapes are worn.  They back up ONLY 100 MB critical files
> > daily.  They're computer-shy, and just want to point & click. #
> > #Shall I recommend:
> > #
> > #1) CD-RW ( cheap media, but has to be blanked prior to write )
> > #
> > #2) Zip 250 ( modest media cost, proprietary )
> > #
> > #3) other ?
> > #
> > #Thanks,
> > #
> > #Tom
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