Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Erasable optical drive Message-ID: <1700@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 6 Jun 90 11:05:18 GMT Lines: 38 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1267@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes: >In article <21013@snow-white.udel.EDU> kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) writes: >>Our connection machine has 50 gigabytes of hard disk (and we have the > >I'd hate to have to back THAT up to floppy... (sorry couldn't resist) Hell, I'd hate to back that up to 2 Gigabyte 8mm media! >(more) seriously, does anyone know how many tape backup packages are out or >in the making for the Amiga? I personally know of one major one in the works >and have reliably heard of two more LOCALLY. I'm beginning to wonder if there's >an epidemic going on. Count one here... and yes, it's an epidemic, I'm sure. I found what I _think_ is the last of the bugs in the restore program last night, and if the crash I am getting with backing up one particular directory is due to the disk contents, then the backup part is done too. At any rate, I will be releasing it within two weeks, probably one week. >Also, I remember the thread on the VCR backup, but it seems to have died out. >Why isn't there one of these little gadgets coming for the Amiga? With the >exception of the slight problem in READING it back in it sounds like an easy >enough device to implement. And with the huge market penetration of VCRs it >would be very popular if marketed properly. It is FAR, FAR easier to back up to a proper SCSI tape drive than to a VCR. There are some inordinately difficult problems with getting a reliable backup and restore from consumer video grade hardware. -larry -- The raytracer of justice recurses slowly, but it renders exceedingly fine. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+