> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong. > > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe > > entirely to blame? It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I > > thought were fairly reliable. Hardware could possibly be to blame, > > but I thought zip disks were fairly reliable these days?? > > This is a very strong argument for verifying your backups *before* you > need them.
Yes. Unfortunately KBackup does not yet allow the "verify" option for random access media backups. I was going to see if I could do some kind of manual verify, but I hadn't got round to it yet. > I'll link again to my backups mini-FAQ/HOWTO: > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > > ...for why simple is better and tape is cheap. Thanks for this. I wish I had read it before!!!!!!!!!! Cheers, Mark. -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"