ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) (02/09/91)
cs00bd@unccvax.uncc.edu (brian daniels) writes: >I'm looking into buying a NeXT, but I seem to have noticed a dilemma. >They send your Nextstation with an already-configured 400mb HD. >They don't send you the OS on floppies. >How do you backup your operating system?! By my calculations, >400mb=apprx 138 2.88mb floppies! Well, well... The OS is fairly static - most of the files never change. What you need to backup is user files and system data files. If you have ~150 MB of user and data files, a total backup takes up about 30 floppies. The only time you might possibly need a backup of the *OS* is if you should manage to destroy everything on the disk. A set of backup floppies is $400 from NeXT retail, a bit less with ed discount. Rather than shelling out $400, you probably just want to talk to your campus book store (or wherever you bought your NeXT) and make sure that they have a set of backup floppies around that you can use to rebuild a nuked disk. -- Disclaimer: Wang doesn't care about my opinions, so why should you? Internet: <ice@jasmine.wang.COM> <ice@wang.COM> <ice@emil.csd.uu.se> BITNET: <ice@DRYCAS> <ice@SEARN> <ice@SEQZ51> (in order of preference) USnail: Wang Labs, Inc., M/S 019-490, One Industrial Ave., Lowell, MA 01851
johankha@tz.wimsey.bc.ca (e_mou) (02/18/91)
The OS can be compressed onto about 30 or 40 floppies. Still a lot, I know, but far better than the 138 figure you quoted.