Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!tgould!lmjm From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Backups? How? Message-ID:Date: 5 Dec 88 22:20:05 GMT Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London. U.K. Lines: 21 Just curious as to how people do backups out there. I only have a 1.2Meg floppy drive. Most of my discs have some kind of problem with them (my disc budget is low, ok its 0). I can't see any easy way to backup to disks with faults. Using tar + vol wouldn't necessarily work as vol doesn't do a write+read check to see if the data got out there correctly. I've not found anything in the minix kernel to do such a check either. Before anyone tells me to go and buy decent discs do bear in mind that the problem of restoring discs is one you may all have to face. A backup disc can be corrupted by a wide range of environmental conditions (tea, coffee, children, footprints...) and vol will just stop at the first problem. L -- -- Lee McLoughlin 01 589 5111 X 5028 Department of Computing,Imperial College,180 Queens Gate,London SW7 2BZ Janet: lmjm@uk.ac.ic.doc Uucp: lmjm@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!lmjm DARPA: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (or lmjm%uk.ac.ic.doc@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk)