Re: Seeking suggestions for a HD backup technique

[fmlin@icicle.winternet.com (Frank M. Lin)]

In article <380nve$gs5@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
Jeffrey Robertson <jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>The IIgs doesn't have the greatest collection of backup software
>-- at least, I don't know of much.  I'd love to have a tape drive
>with software that supports incremental backups, but I've never
>heard of any.  Also, most of the drives I see advertised are for
>1 Gig, or something equally huge.  They're priced accordinly,
>too.  I don't need that much storage -- my biggest partition
>is < 60 Meg.

There are only 2 "real" back up software that backs up to tape/DATs.
RamFAST SCSI's built-in tape back up program (usable basic feature
program), or Tim Grams GSTape backup.  GSTape can do incremental
backup, among other things (can't remember right now).  Owners
of GSTape all are happy with it.  You can reach tim at 
tgrams@genie.geis.com.

>One idea I'd toyed with was buying another external SCSI, mounting
>it in the same case as my other one.  It would be 200 Meg, and I'd
>use it to "mirror" the other two drives.  No fancy backup software
>required, and it ought to be fairly cheap, since lots of folks
>seem to be upgrading their 200 Meg HD to 10 Gig or something.

BTW, I have a new Maxtor 540 MB for $300...  see my other post in
comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  I also happen (gee :) to have a 
external 250 MB SCSI tape drive for sale, send me mail if interested.

>Basically, I'm sick of floppies, but I don't want to sink a
>fortune into a backup system.  Oh, one final point:  I'm
>partial to techniques that may be recycled in other computer
>systems.  I may get a surplus Unix workstation someday, and a
>SCSI device could be connected to either system.

Since your HD space isn't too huge, you might also consider getting
a floptical drive (which I also happen to...  no I don't :-)...
If case you don't know, they hold 21 MB each.


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Frank M. Lin
fmlin@winternet.com