Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!zodiac!hebron!neville
From: neville@hebron.ads.com (Neville Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: How do *you* back up your Unix-PC?
Message-ID: <6707@zodiac.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 19:33:53 GMT
Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP
Reply-To: neville@ads.com (Neville Newman)
Distribution: na
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
Lines: 26

i am on the verge of upgrading my 7300 to either 40 or 80 Megabytes of
disk space, possibly more when John Milton's 4-disk upgrade becomes
available.  i am extremely concerned, however, about backing up the
system.  i went for 3 years on my Stride with only 1 backup, and i
think i'm probably at the end of my lucky streak.

i know that there are hardware hackers out there who have spliced
in cheap tape drives, there are the 2 different (according to TRC)
drives from AT&T, there are Bernoulli Boxes, and probably other
backup provisions that i've never heard of.

If you have a means of backing up your disk (other than floppies
or serial/parallel dump to another computer), i would appreciate
hearing from you.  What i'd like to know is  a) what setup you're
using,  b) how much does it cost [time/labor],  c) any special
sources for the equipment,  and  d) how satisfied you are with
this solution.

Thanks.

							-neville

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Net mail:   neville@ads.com			    (for enlightened mailers)
	or  ...!sri-spam!zodiac!neville		    (vanilla UUCP path)
	or  {ucbvax,ames,et.al.}!ads.com!neville    (UUCP thru backbone sites)