Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 12:52 -0500, James Knott wrote:
A CD is too small nowdays, that could be a reason, but DVDs are more reasonable - still, you can imagine backing a 500 GB HD to... what, 100 DVDs? Many years ago, I used to back up my hard drive to floppies! Lessee now 500 GB / 1.44 MB = over 330,000 floppies!!!
Me too!
I still have backups in 360 Kb floppies, and I know they still work, they are fully "restorable" - I know because I tried. I used PCtools Backup (Microsoft on later days paid them for a limited version of the same program to include with MsDos 5 or 6). I had a dual floppy pc and it was able to backup using both drives alternatively, without me pressing a key. It was so fast I barely had time to store a floppy and pick the next!
I wish we had some open backup software as reliable as that one was, but using modern media, like dvds, for instance.
I also used 360K floppies on my XT clone with it's *HUGE* 30 MB drive! Then on my 386 OS/2 system, I used Backmaster with QIC-80 tapes. Nowadays, I either write an image to a duplicate hard drive, copy to an external hard drive or write to DVD. I use KDar for writing to the DVDs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org