Re: [MLUG] iomega atapi zip 100

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Do you have any spare drives around at all?  If you were lucky enough to
have one of the same size I can't say enough good about LVM and RAID
under Linux...

Or do you have any old P.O.S. HD's that you could backup to?  if it is
only a 100 or 250 zip might I even suggest a key chain drive?  /dev/sda1?

On a side note:

Who is up for another installathon?

This time the featured movie will be Monty Python's Quest for the holy
grail and there will be a hardware swap (bring it if you want to swap it
and if you don't want to swap it then sell it)

George


nowlind wrote:

> This is on a home server.  Yes it does have an outside connection but
> the upload speed is slow (32K).  Besides I like to have 100% control
> over my backups.
> As for the tape or cdr.  As some of you know I am just a DataCenter
> Tech.  I do not have much extra money to blow.  I did have an old zip
> drive and disks doing nothing so I thought I would put them to use.  I
> know the down falls of the zip disk but when you do not have the money
> you use what you have.
> Any other ideas on a FIX for the problem????
>
> Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote:
> >>I've always been of the opinion that a zip backup is no
> >>backup at all.
> >
> >
> > This is very, very true.
> >
> > BTW, if you decide to do the gmail backup routine, I believe this was
> > mentioned a few weeks back:
> >
> > http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem
> > .html
> >
> > Might be fun to tinker with...
> >
> > Otherwise, look at CDR, a cheap USB key, or an old tape drive to hand
> > this task. I'd go with CDR.
> >
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