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

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"John" <twohandsfree@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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