With the low cost of fixed storage now, I just use some rsync scripts with a fixed or usb hard drive, depending on the need for offsite.... Of course, I don't do a full backup, but I don't want to.... I'd rather reinstall all of my software, giving me a chance to improve on how I had things set up the last time. -----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin.listas@telefonica.net] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:14 PM To: OS-en Subject: Re: [opensuse] About Backing Up -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-18 at 12:52 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF2LOStTMYHG2NR9URAnUaAJ0eE0IVWScaTU7k3cJm71QbQkxyKACfWeEd 5vh2k/Vuj20MLrnlGPA9S+E= =t0ZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.1/691 - Release Date: 2/17/2007 5:06 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.1/691 - Release Date: 2/17/2007 5:06 PM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org