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   From: "Percival P. Cassidy"    
      
   On 11/10/10 06:22 pm, Victor Bien wrote:   
      
      
      
   > I'm stuck with using Back Again 2000. The difficulty is that backing   
   > onto a file on a HD (the only practical medium for me these days) one is   
   > limited to 2.1 GB. If through lack of sufficient attention the backup   
   > exceeds that size you get a hang sometimes requiring a restart, very   
   > disruptive... which takes up even more time... So I have to think   
   > carefully what and how to backup, more time... Well since I now have the   
   > old HD with the data I had up to a certain day in May I now can and have   
   > specified backups to backup only files more recent than that date which   
   > makes it a bit easier to manage. However, I still have to divvy up what   
   > to backup not to exceed the 2.1 GB. I then use a mixture of Full and   
   > Incremental backups but the management of the backups start to take up   
   > too much time. As the months roll by I get more and more increments so   
   > it then becomes time to take another Full backup but then the volume of   
   > data has built up and there is that 2.1 GB limit.   
   >   
   > I know that with tape BA2k would have no 2.1 GB limit but tape drives   
   > cost more than what is in my pocket!   
   >   
   > Any thoughts welcome!   
      
   Where are you located? Sony (including the ones relabeled as Dell or    
   Compaq) TSL-11000 DDS4 autoloaders (8-tape magazine) are plentiful on    
   eBay and often ridiculously cheap -- sometimes even brand new.   
      
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