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From: perretg@cernvax.UUCP (perretg)
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Subject: Looking for BACKUP SYSTEM for HARD-DISK
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Date: 24 Nov 88 14:54:54 GMT
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Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Backup systems have not been considered in depth recently for the Amiga
hard-disks, although they are a requisite component of any serious system.
A recent study in MacWorld (november 1988) shows mainly 4 possible
options of SCSI drives:

1) Tape drives (slow, small capacity, cheap)
2) Video Tape drives (fast, large capacity, expensive**)
3) Removable Hard disk and Bernoulli (fast, small capacity)
4) WORM optical drives (still expensive)

What are the options, Amigan have already experimented?

Is there any software support available?
 o SCSI driver for tapes or WORM
 o Global, incremental Backup

Our more specific problem is the backup of a 142 Mb hard-disk connected
to the A2090 board.

** Alpha Micro produces Videotrax for VHS Beta 8 mm videotape VCR for
   $499, if one include a computer controlled VCR for $1299 one get a
   complete system for $1800 with up to 240 Mb capacity.

						   Denis Perret-Gallix