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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: cartridge tape on ST
Message-ID: <370@stag.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 16:25:06 GMT
References: <1536@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
Lines: 27
Keywords: cartridge tape backups supra 10MB floppy

In article <1536@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
>their own power supplies (?). i know for me this is infinitely better than
>listening (and waiting) for my floppy to (literally) grind out backups (i'm
>on my 3rd drive mechanism in a <2 year old 1040). any comments? if such
>a system is available, could you post/email to me?

Actually, that was the reason I wrote HDSCAN...I currently use HDSCAN
for all my incremental backups on both my ST and my Unix Box (both
only have floppies for backup media.) What I will do is make one full
backup of the system with just the minimal configuration of files on
it (using turtle on the ST and dump on the Unix system). Then every
few days I will scan the entire ST drive (all trees except the USENET
area on the Unix system), sort everything by reverse date, and tag for
copying all the 'new' files. Since this gives you a chance to ignore
those 400K demo files that you could care less about backing up, you
will find that it takes quite a while to go through 10 disks worth of
incremental backup...like about 6 months for me since most of the
stuff I back up is just my source code. It is incredible how many
large system files you can ignore this way on a Unix system as well. 

Last price I heard on the Supra 10 meg floppy was $895 and you
supposedly can use it with another drive (at least another Supra
anyway.) Of course with a 80 ms access time, you could just use it as
another hard disk...

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP