I've had better experiences with the little Ditto tape drive, though it can't go beyond 1 GB compressed. Parallel port is slow, but I don't mind a three hour backup if it goes while I am in bed sleeping. I can also use it for the other computers around here, especially if I can make it go under Linux. Also have a parallel port 100 Mb ZIP drive, as well as internal ones in two boxes here. I like the Norton-Iomega recovery system.
One major problem with Windows systems is that a really useful backup must be able to run under DOS to restore a system when Windows can't boot. Hadn't thought of getting two, but may do that. Maybe sometime when we are short a program we could get someone to talk about rescue packages that boot from floppy, set up a RAM disk, and run tools from that. SPBLinux comes to mind as a good example, but the diskette produced by Windows98SE does so also. That's it, OS on diskette for troubleshooting and recovery -- for title. Choppy At 07:31 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: >Buy a cheap tape drive and that's what you'll get. Several years ago I >bought a Ditto 2Gig tape backup and that's was the biggest piece of junk >there ever was. I had to RMA it and get another and it was junk too. After >looking at mailing lists for that product I found out that a lot of other >people thought the same thing. I know I'll never buy another Ditto product >again. Guaranteed. Just my $0.02. Jeff ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
