Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2004-09-18 at 13:53 -0400, James Knott wrote:
On a related note, what do you use to backup such beasties? Tapes in mammoth size reels, perhaps? :-)
Just curious.
A *BIG* pile of floppies! ;-)
X'-)
O yea, I remember the backups I made years ago with pcbackup, on a machine with two floppies. It was so fast I barely had time to label the floppies: A, B, A, B, A... there was no need to even press keys, the change was detected.
Around 80 floppies for... 40 Mb? In less than one hour. Some had autochangers... with a CDrom autochangers, big backups would be doable nowdays.
I have two identical 60 G hard drives in my desktop system. One is removable. To backup my system, I just do a full image copy of the entire hard drive, onto the removable one. Important stuff, I also copy onto CD-RW.