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#Tape or harddrive backup

    19-Apr-94 13:10:27
Sb: #Tape or harddrive backup
Fm: Richard Graff 72711,1045
To: ALL
After spending much of my morning repairing a trashed harddrive and not being able to recover any of my AP:Messages and about 30megs of archives, I've come to realize that I have to do something about backups. I used to do regular floppy backups, however as my harddrive space has grown and the number and size of the files has grown, I have gotten very lax in this area. I know I'm not going to keep up with floppy backups, exspecially when it takes almost two hours of inserting disks and removing disks <G>. My budget can probably afford a SCSI tape Backup drive and tapes, and I could easily afford another harddrive. The question is which is the better route and why, are there any downsides of using a harddrive as a backup device VS. a tape drive or visa versa? =Rick=