Re: [MLUG] iomega atapi zip 100

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

on that note, i've got 2 or 3 old drives laying around. something in
the neighborhood of 2-8GBs.

if you prefer, i'd happily part with a small drive. if you've got the
open ide slot.

and, sure...i'm up for another install...



On 5/12/05, George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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