19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
8:59 p.m.
Make sure the machine has a SCSI controller in it, and put the
"back-up" hard drive in an external SCSI enclosure. Or use
pull out's, SCSI or IDE.
John Foust wrote:
At 03:05 PM 11/19/2001 -0700, you wrote:
My experience has been that folks who have a
backup device, capable of doing a
full scheduled (automatic, without human intervention) system backup of
everything accessible to the system on a single element of the medium the device
uses, always seem to have good backup.
These days on today's PCs, it's easier to buy a spare
hard disk, and copy (using 'at', the scheduler, TaskZip,
whatever) your vital files to it. Take a tape backup
off-site as frequently as you like, or just carry the
spare hard disk.
- John