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From: ALBRECHT%caliph@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Steve Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: SCSI adaptors, floppy drives
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Date: 24 Aug 89 03:07:02 GMT
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Roger Benz (reb%quintro%tiamut.uusp@uunet.uu.net) stated in a recent
message that mounting, wbak/rbak, or tar to high density floppy is
an acceptable backup solution.

While I have not tried this yet under SR10 (or SR9.7, either), I did
extensive tests under SR9.6 and found that sizable items stored on
floppies by any of these methods were almost always unrestorable
without data losses.

Until this situation is amended, DON'T COUNT ON FLOPPY BACKUP!

Besides, cart tape is (somewhat) faster.



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