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[Anton Aylward <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott said the following on 01/29/2012 07:41 AM:
> Anton Aylward wrote:
> > Make sure you back up/etc/lvm/*
> >
> > *sigh*  Sometimes I miss floppy disks for taking snapshots of just one or
> > two config files like that*sigh*
>
> USB flash drives are cheap and can hold a lot of things.  Another trick 
> I've used is to simply email them to myself and leave them on the 
> server.  One problem with floppies is they're not reliable in the long 
> term and often short term.  Blank CDs or DVDs are another option.

Knowing that intellectually is one thing ...

What did floppies cost?  About less than $1.
Remember the early Star Trek episodes where Spock had a stack of data
cards that looked very like 3.5" floppies.

I know, intellectually, that a spindle of 50 CDs costs maybe $5 ... $10
at the outside.  DVD perhaps a bit more, but even at one tenth the cost
of a floppy it seems odd to put less than 1M of data on something that
can hold nearly 1G.

I've never understood why those dinky credit-card sized CDs are so
expensive!

But at least you can write on CDs.  USB drives seem to be about $1/G
these days.  I've got lots of trade-show hand-outs at less than 1G but
I'm going to have to white-ex them and write a number then have a card
index to tell me which one is which.

One config per floppy made so much sense ...

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