You can usually find full size CR-R's for a lower per unit price than floppies and from my experience Floppies go south much more often than any other storage media that I've worked with. The ANSI standard for longevity of a floppy is 6 mos. of service, if I remember correctly, (that's 6 months of guaranteed data integrity whether used or not.
At 04:41 PM 7/27/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Cameron, >At only 10-20K to back-up every day, why use anything but a floppy? >The bigger issue is whether to put a week or month on each back-up floppy, >and where to put the floppies so they aren't stolen along with the computer! >Regards, Bob S. > > > Cameron Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the best system currently for backing up small amount of > > >business stuff frequently (i.e. everyday). My girlfriends office was >broken > > >into, they stole the computer, and the secretary had not backed up >anything > > >in over a month. They need to back up daily about 10 - 20 K (yes, K!) of > > >data. It seems rather wasteful to use cd's, and zip diskd are so >notoriously > > >unreliable that I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy. >> >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
