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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
I have used tape backup since '85 on my Atari Mega ST running a BBS. In
those days a 20 mb (yes mb) hard drive cost $600+! Used SCSI hard drives and stayed with SCSI equipment as I moved to Microsoft Windows on a new computer. I keep 5 generations of tape and do the chore monthly on a Travan 4/8. Just this past week, I added a DVD burner and now I'm in the process of replacing the tape method with DVD's. I've found that the greatest benefit of backing up was do to recovering files I thought I didn't need anymore. The best adds to a computer station are; a backup method, an UPS and a "skin" on the keyboard. Gotta add an optical mouse, DSL, a home network (daughter wants on the Internet and access to the printer G). Hmmm.... and a scanner! More hmmmm... an USB thumb drive. -- Don -------- Vancouver, USA - One of the great cities in one of the 45+ countries in the Americas! Don@NoSpam wrote in message ... As usual I probably am out of step with the world, but I've never cared for tape backup. That was really driven home on an HP 1000 system on time when the tape drive refused to read beyond record #n for whatever reason. Not only that, supposed I backup my OS with some compressing BU scheme and I want to recover the Registry. How now brown cow? I've opted to BU to CDs on an selected file basis. If I have to reinstall Win it certainly does no good to recover from an image of the previous system. I'd appreciate learing from tape backup advocates... Don Jeff Richards wrote: You might be better off using the backup program supplied with the tape drive. Please see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];242864 Tape Backup Units Supported by the Windows 98 Backup Program -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use the Backup utility included with Win98SE. When I go to the screen where I choose to install it (it doesn't get installed by default), it says it supports tape devices. MB On 05/31/04 12:05 am Don Schmidt put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. Username munged by FixNews -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Jeff Richards says...
[snip] It's an old hobby horse of mine, but I maintain that if a backup set can't be restored to a clean hard drive from a floppy boot then what's the point of creating it? Most Windows-based tape backup software require Windows to be re-installed before the system can be restored... Ghost will do that. It's a DOS program, and all the boot disk needs to bring up is DOS. That should recognize the disks (you might need FDISK on the boot disk to bring up hopelessly ruined disks). Then, if you have Ghost on the backup disks, it should unpack the images into new directories. I've done that to my C: drive in Win98. What would happen if you tried to do this to a system using a non-DOS-based Windows, I don't know. Since what Ghost makes are disk images or partition images, it's possible a DOS boot disk might do it. I back up onto a hard drive in a cartridge. It's a modest system, and I get it onto a single backup disk, but it could certainly be done, say weekly onto different cartridges. If you can raise your CD drive from the boot disk, it should work that way, too. -- R. N. (Dick) Wisan - Email: - Snail: 37 Clinton Street, Oneonta NY 13820, U.S.A. - Just your opinion, please, ma'am: No fax. |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
The NOVA was a beautiful architecture. We used to run 6 users on 32k and up
to 16 users on 128k machines - I have seen reports of 24 users. I ended up using Novas on a chip (Fairchild 9440) in a 16-bit PC ISA card, with 4 users - I've still got the card, but I'm not sure I've got a PC I could install it in! Then they produced the Eclipse (I have a DC 2000, but it hasn't been powered up for a few years) and I had to rewrite our Business Basic interpreter from RDOS to AOS - thousands of lines of assembler, but it was all great fun. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 Don@NoSpam wrote in message ... Fuzzy Logic wrote: "Don Schmidt" Retired wrote in : Snip Talk about "holy flashback"! I started my computer life in 1970 at age 40 on DGC's NOVA and Super NOVA. Also worked on PDP 11s through the 11-45. Then very luckly went back to NOVAs. Even more luckly finally ended my career in 1986 with HP 1000's and never had to mess with DEC equipment again. I find it ironic that NOVA split from DEC about 1968 and is still alive, healthy I don't know about(*). Also ironic that DEC, the biggest in the world, went bankrupt and was bought out by Compac which then finally went with HP. (*) Just found that EMC Corp bought out DGC for $1.2 billion in 1999. Then I found that "HP might buy EMC" in 2002. Where and when will it all end? Makes one dizzy trying to keep up with it all. :-) Don |
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