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Article #23482Re: What is better tape or megafloppies for backup?
From: William S. Graefe
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 07:27
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 07:27
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In article <668@bucket.UUCP> martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee) writes:
=be nice for the lesser used files. I've been told that the MegaFloppies
=been having trouble with reliability because the read/write head rides
=on the media unlike #2 or standard hard disks.
Macworld, Sept '87: "Data on the 10MB floppies last ten times longer than
on Bernoulli-technology cartridges." So what's the story? I thought the
Bernoulli's were better for the top reasons. Anybody have cold, hard facts?
=My question: should I be worried about the MegaFloppies? Any better
=solutions?
Tape backup?!?!? The process has been around for too long! I agree, single
file recovery would be difficult without major backups of good software.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!tramp!graefe From: graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What is better tape or megafloppies for backup? Message-ID: <3773@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 11 Jan 88 07:27:13 GMT References: <668@bucket.UUCP> Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 20