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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VCR Backup - HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <2472@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 90 15:51:15 GMT
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In article <9006131524.AA13464@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman) writes:
> I have posted this question before, but the only response I got was
> from some folks saying 'me-too'.  Certainly there is someone out
> there who has knowledge of the status of VCR tape/disk backup!!
[lotsa stuff deleted]
> Thanks again, Jerry Whitman - keeper of the FishXref and FishCon

Jerry,
In my experience, backing up to a VCR is not a good idea.  The problem is
that a standard VCR is an analog beast, and the tracking isn't the greatest.
The only really serious attempt at a VCR backup (discounting the IBM thing)
was tried by Alpha Micro and was called VideoTrax.  It required triple
backups to be made (three copies) to ensure a good backup.  YEEECH!

I back up to a Wangtek 5150 150MB SCSI tape drive on my HardFrame.  I'm
working on nice software to go with it (the stuff I have is cryptic, it's
pieces of a program.  I'm putting it together).

This, of course, doesn't help you because you don't have a tape drive.  But
backing up to videotape on a VCR is _not_ the way to go.  This is my opinion,
mind you.  Others will no doubt disagree.
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