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From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Have you checked your floppies lately?
Message-ID: <10955@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 05:23:07 GMT
References: <28718@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: resident visitor
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From article <28718@apple.Apple.COM>, by chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach):
> One of the things I did was re-initialize all my DiskFit backups. The scary
> part was that out of about 60 floppies (three different sets of full backups
> over two machines) three of them failed initialization -- there were three
> bad floppies in my backups. 
> 

Yes, I had just the same experience, almost right down to the numbers.

Makes one wonder about the aging characteristics of the magnetic media
actually used in the flops.  Mine were Sony or Apple, too.

Actually, Diskfit seems to benefit from getting the chance to reorder your
files on the flops, by doing a complete from-scratch backup.  So
spring cleaning sounds right!

Clive
In Oregon, it _really_ is spring.