Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!brunix!agm From: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: backup of hard disk Message-ID: <56009@brunix.UUCP> Date: 11 Nov 90 01:09:44 GMT References: <13089@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 In article <13089@chaph.usc.edu> kjh@aludra.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: >How does one backup one's hard disk? On floppies? How long does it >take? If you have a station, I assume you can't put a tape drive in; >is it possible to get an external SCSI tape drive? Does such an animal >exist? Do the drivers exist in the kernnel? > >-- >favorite oxymorons: military intelligence, honest politician, civil war >Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh For anyone who has a backup medium, this shouldn't be a major issue. Here's my suggestion for someone with a floppy+hard-drive system: - Buy NeXT's distribution on floppies. - Keep copies of your /usr/local/..., /Local... stuff - Do regular backups of /Users/ Axel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Merk "One needs a certain amount of blindness -- -- agm@cs.brown.edu to see perfection" - Christopher Nuzum -- -- phone/fax (401)272 2262 Brown University Box 53 Providence RI 02912 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------