OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue Nov 20 04:59:45 2001

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
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