Marlyse Comte told us: >a backup is a copy of a file, either on the same drive, or an external >drive or a cd-rom or something other external, meant to be there if the >original file gets corrupted or anything the like happens.
A backup and an archive may include all or part of the original data. My own distinction between the two is this: In a backup, the data on the original remains intact. In an archive, some or all of the archived data may be erased. Obviously there is a lot of overlap. Backups are for security and archives are for permanent storage, but to some extent either can be used for the other purpose. Len --------- Leonard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] If quantum physics makes sense to you, it shows that you don't really understand it. Neils Bohr (I think)
