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Re: Off-topic: Tape Backups



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> I've been using Ghost and a removable hard drive for backup for a
> couple of years now.  I have a 30GB drive and back all up in disk
> images.  

That sounds interesting.  I can't find any removable HD's on 
shopper.cnet.com -- what are you using?  Probably costs a bit more 
than the $50 per 10GB I mentioned before.  :-)

> OK, now don't start flaming but I use a FAT32 driver on my NT 4.0
> system because I can restore individual files from the Ghost FAT32
> disk image.  

Couldn't you do that if both were NTFS?  Or doesn't Ghost support 
NTFS?

Somebody on RT mentioned the Plextor CDRW drives.  I did a bit of 
digging and it sounds like they're getting the reliability problems 
under control.  The Plextor drives (and some others) use a technology 
called BURN-Proof, which allows the drive to pause recording if it 
runs out of data, then resume when its buffer fills up again.  
http://windows.oreilly.com/news/pchardnut_0900.html says they used to 
be afraid to move their mouse while burning a CD, for fear of 
interrupting the burn.  With the Plextor they successfully wrote a CD 
while defragging their disk!  So CDRW's might be a reasonable 
alternative after all -- if you get the right drive.

Gary