Re: What's your favorite Hard Drive Backup device??

[twohandsfree@hotmail.com (John)]

"Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message news:<vadt94bopv0hb8@corp.supernews.com>...
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> > "Stephen Hartz" <SHartz@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > > Looking to get a new backup device for my IIGS. I want to do a disk-->
>  disk
> > > backup from my hard drive and Iomega partitions to partitions on a
>  'large '
> > > removable storage device. The HD partitions are 32,32,32,111 and the Zip
>  is
> > > 32,32,32.  What do you like for this purpose?  Why?
> >
> > I don't know how much slower Zips are over SyQuests, but I use
> > SyQuests to back up my Focus partitions. It takes a while, but not
> > that long - maybe 20 to 40 minutes per 32 megs?????? (been a while).
> > So, can't you use more Zips to back up the HD? Even most of the 111
> > meg partition could be copied to an HFS Zip.
> 
> You could use zips or SyQuests if you already have them, but a second hard
> disk is going to be cheaper, faster, and more reliable.
> -Paul

The "problem" with a second HD is that you can't remove the device as
easily as a Zip disk. It's possible, but I wouldn't consider that part
of the solution as very elegant.

Speed. It would be a little faster than a SyQuest, but not much,
probably much faster than a zip. But, I do backups in slack time, so
speed isn't an issue.

Cost. As far as cost, well, he has a Zip drive already, so maybe the
cost of a couple of Zip disks.

Reliability. I don't know about reliability, but with the SyQuest you
do have to keep an eye on that aspect, OTOH how much do you trust a
used SCSI HD on a 20 year old computer?