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From: graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is better tape or megafloppies for backup?
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Date: 11 Jan 88 07:27:13 GMT
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In article <668@bucket.UUCP> martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee) writes:
=be nice for the lesser used files.  I've been told that the MegaFloppies
=been having trouble with reliability because the read/write head rides
=on the media unlike #2 or standard hard disks.

Macworld, Sept '87: "Data on the 10MB floppies last ten times longer than
on Bernoulli-technology cartridges."  So what's the story?  I thought the
Bernoulli's were better for the top reasons.  Anybody have cold, hard facts?

=My question: should I be worried about the MegaFloppies?  Any better
=solutions?

Tape backup?!?!?  The process has been around for too long!  I agree, single
file recovery would be difficult without major backups of good software.


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