[H-GEN] Zip drives?

[Chris Baird]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Chris Baird <cbaird at turing.une.edu.au>)

> > Has anyone any comments on Zip drives as a backup medium under Linux?
> 
> Just fine. Very straightforward, and quite durable. Just watch out for
> early batches of the media with the Click Of Death.

"Click of Death"?

> Then again, I've never done the entire
> tar-and-zip-the-entire-filesystem-onto-Zip thing - I'm just keeping
> spare kernels and trivia and whatnot. YMMV.

I do-- Brushtail's backups fortunately gzip in at ~87 Meg, and I've used
a SCSI model Zip drive regularly for backups and offline storage for
about 18 months.  Easily more reliable than using tapes (never had a
medium error over 20 discs), and performance is good.  I've even
accidently smashed it open, and fixed by hand...

-- 
Chris,,
(Still waiting on Linux Systems Lab to replace the dodgy CD.)

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