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I believe the value of weekly rotation of backup diskettes in which you should not rely just on only one disk per material. use 2 sets of disks for rotationing.
________________________________________________________ At 09:42 AM 6/8/98 +0200, J.W.E Roberts wrote: >Same thing here; however JAZ-Drive. The thingy is expensive, media too, and utterly unreliable. >J.W.E. Roberts > >Robert Duplain wrote: > >> You're very couragous to rely on zip drives to secure you data. >> >> To my experience Omega Zip Drive is UNreliable. Some month ago mine started "clicking" and scraped disks where I had saved valuable data. Nobody knew why this common phenomena occured. Iomega just ignored the problem (look at their stock value). >> >> I resolved the enigma by putting the Zip Drive in the oven at 450 deg. for 1 hour. It does not work anymore by I know why. >> >> Believe me, you better get a second hard drive and backup on it, it is much cheaper per Meg, faster and much more reliable. >> >> Robert >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De: Chris Henderson [SMTP:cjhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Date: 4 juin, 1998 02:46 >> À: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Objet: Re: Power-cut >> >> I agree with your backup method: >> >> I use Explorer weekly to copy equis stock files & portfolios to a Zip drive. >> I include the MS explorer and formula files every now & then. I changed >> computers recently and installed MStock onto the new drive, then copied the >> Zip drive files (not compressed or 'Zip backups') into the fresh Equis >> directory. Whn I started MS on the new computer everything was there >> exactly as on the old one. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Part 1.2 Type: application/ms-tnef >> Encoding: base64 > > > > >
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