Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake. Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 88 14:21:47 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 23 It has been mentioned that one of the largest problems with the lack of a floppy drive (specifically, a 3.5" floppy) is that there is no easy way to back up the floptical... From personal experience, backing up on to 3.5" is not a solution. - it's miserable - fast backup programs don't verify writes... fairly easy to get an error. - it's slow, and there isn't much you can do during wait times because they don't last very long - it's difficult to manage that many discs; safe storage, labeling, etc. On the Cube, it would be even more miserable because of the high-capacity of a flopty disc-- it would take a lot of 1.4meg 3.5" to back up even a half full flopty. Backing up between two machines on a net or to a tape drie seems like not only a better solution, but about the only solution. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu