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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : Gaelyne Gasson <gaelyne@videocam.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:05:04 +1030

Re: Floppys (was SCO problems again)

ANNOUNCEMENT: THIS IS NOT A FLAME

:)


I've always found the concept of *backup-up* onto a floppy slightly
amusing.

I trust floppys about as far as I can throw them, which is not ar
considering they always do that funny flippy-around thing in the air....




Gaelyne Gasson wrote:
> 
> G'day Nick and all,
> 
>  On 30 November 1999 Nick Stock wrote:
> 
>  > Hi all, (opps, ignore the email lag)
>  >
>  > Having only been following the thread with mild interest and purging
>  > mail a tad quickly, please disregard anything I mention that is in
>  > anyway not pure genius.
> 
> I'm much the same - sometimes a little heavy on the delete key as I
> plow through mail..... anyway...
> 
>  >
>  > > Floppys are a possibility, but damned slow, when you're talking about
>  > > 60Mb of data... although, maybe we should check its size after a tar and
> snip
> 
>  > Floppys! Don't do it man, you will never forgive yourself.
>  > In one move you will regress the computer support industry a decade.
>  > There has to be a better way...
> 
> For that much data, I'd have to agree, but for backing small amounts
> of textural data, using an (ack!) MS-DOS floppy isn't a bad idea.  I just
> recently had to back up key files for Thawte Certificates, and since
> these are basically text files and take up very little disk space.  By
> saving the data to an MS-DOS formatted floppy, it ensures that I can
> access the files using darn near any computer operating system (Linux,
> Win9x, Macintosh, Commodore, etc).  About the only problem would be
> carriage return/end of line formatting and there are plenty of
> utilities around to handle the job.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gaelyne
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