Re: New GS: Lots-o-questions

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Nov9.073130.4151@pro-novapple.clark.net>, Lee Raesly writes...
> 
> And if you get a Hard Drive, it's ONLY advatage in a business situation
> is Speed, NOT Storage. NEVER BACK UP A HARD DRIVE!!!!

    You run a strange business, Lee.  ;-)  So if someone were to hand
you a 140K 5.25" floppy drive which was capable of 8 ms access and
1Mb/sec transfer rate, you would take it over a 20-meg HD with 65 ms
access and only 200K/sec transfer rate?

> If your HD crashes, you must either get it repaired, or buy a new one,
> before you can restore your backup.

    Or in most cases, a low-level format with bad block lockout will do
the trick, and you can restore your data right away.  The need to backup
a hard drive isn't because of a physical crash (rare).  It's for
corrupted directories, or user mistakes ("Oops!  Formatted the wrong
partition!").  A good set of backups will be a lifesaver in that case.

> Instead, make duplicates of all working programs, and especially
> duplicates of working files. Then, while you HD is being repaired, you
> can still operate in the office.

    Hmmm... isn't this called "backing up your hard drive"?  ;-)  That's
what I do.  Once every two weeks I drag my HD boot partition over to my
floptical.  If my hard drive ever goes down, I can simply boot from the
floptical without losing any functionality.  Same goes for my games and
GNO backups.
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