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In article <3u5r2u$l75@clark.net>, Alan McConnell <alan@clark.net> wrote:
>A friend recently told me I should "back up my system".  I got him
>to first spell the word, then he explained the concept, and now I'm
>sold on the idea that this is something I should do<g>.  So I'm
>looking for advice on tape drives and tapes; I want to know what
>works and what is cheap, also whether a tape-drive in a bay, or
>external, thru /dev/lp0, is better(that last clause is faulty, but
>since I'm using vi I'll let it go<g>)

Well, using a cheap drive attached to the parallel port is not an
answer, since LINUX does not support that sort of drive.  The cheapest
way you can do it, is with a tape drive attached to the floppy disk
controller, and then use the FTAPE drivers.  I have a Summit QIC-80
drive, mounted externally, connected to my system.  Use it to backup
both the LINUX and DOS disks (and restore them) without problems.


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