[AccessD] OT Friday: Diskettes on the fly?

...I've moved to portable usb hds for server backups ...360gb of compressed 
data per hd ...and fast

William

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From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:31 AM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Friday: Diskettes on the fly?

> I remember a program called FastBack that I used to back up my 10MB hard
> disk. LOL. It took about 50 diskettes to do a single backup. Now I'm faced
> with similar problems. You know many dual-layer DVDs it takes to back up a
> Terabyte? Sheesh.
>
> Arthur
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> In 1997 while living down in Mexico, I gave away my collection of 
>> software
>> on floppy.  Even 10 years
>> ago the floppy was pretty much useless.
>>
>> I still keep about 20 simply because they are getting hard to buy and the
>> older versions of windows
>> still require them for the driver install when installing windows.  Even
>> that is finally going away
>> (thank goodness) with Vista and beyond.
>>
>> I would say they are good for making the trash heap a little bigger.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
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