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From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Backups?  How?
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Date: 5 Dec 88 22:20:05 GMT
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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
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