bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) (09/12/89)
In article <KV56962.89Sep6145510@naakka.tut.fi>, kv56962@tut.fi (V{{r{nen Kari) writes: > In article <3561@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes: > > > I responded by mail to the original 1.2M query, but apparently there is > > more interest. > > There sure is! Who wants to backup a 30 MB harddisk on 360 floppies? > Not me! Right! This is why I bought a tape drive for my 30 MB XT clone. For US$179 you can get the Everex 1/2 height internal 40MB tape drive with "QTAPE" backup/restore software. Then for another $99 you can get a "universal" 4-way floppy/tape controller if, like me, you wish to keep your two floppy drives. Then you pay about $20 for each DC2000 tape cartridge. (I have two of these and switch between them.) Thus, for a total expenditure of only about $320 plus tax, you get the convenience of being able to pop in a tape, tell it to back up your entire hard disk, and go away for an hour or so. No more floppies! The QTAPE program allows you to make full backups, incremental backups, or to specify manually which files to back up. If you have not completely filled your <= 40MB disk, one tape can typically hold a full dump plus several incremental dumps. My one gripe with this product is that there seems to be no way to access the tape drive as a lettered pseudo-disk (e.g., "D:"); only the QTAPE program seems to be able to access the tape. It's also mind-bogglingly slow, but I usually do my backups while I'm sleeping, so that doesn't matter much. -- Bob Weissman <bob@omni.com> UUCP: ...!{amdahl,apple,pyramid,sgi,tekbspa,uunet}!koosh!bob Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.