CompuServe Messages

Don, Yes, I'd heard some time ago that VCR backup schemes were unreliable. However, I hadn't heard anything about specific packages. If your suspicion is still well founded, that such devices are unreliable, well, I'm going to be having a problem in the near future when my paranoia mounts to the point where I decide that I simply MUST make a backup of my 240Mb hard disk. Seems I'll have a choice of: Using a cheap and potentially unreliable VCR method, Spending a Saturday afternoon and early evening once a week shuffling a stack of floppies (about 25 BOXES of them!), Investing in a tape streamer, or Investing in removable media devices like a Syquest, or… At present, I try to keep my hair fom prematurely falling out by using LZ to make archive files of whatever I happen to be working on at the moment, knowing (or at least hoping) that all the other software can be re-installed, and hoping that the worst won't happen until after I've got a solution to the problem of making backups. I've never yet had any problem whatsoever with a hard disk; neither has there been a power cut when I've been saving anything. Maybe the solution would be to get an uninterruptable power supply? Regards, Shraddhan – via Whap! from Hertfordshire in the UK