From: Victor Bien    
      
   Percival P. Cassidy wrote:   
   > On 11/10/10 06:22 pm, Victor Bien wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
   >    
   > Perce   
      
     I use to backup to tape until the old drives wore out.  Anyway back then the   
   amount of data to backup was an order of magnitude or more smaller.  As the   
   size of data grew I went to DVDs for a while (RSJ and all that) but that   
   didn't last long.  Then as HDs got bigger and bigger and customers started   
   throwing them out to move to even bigger ones I started backing up to the   
   cast-off HDs (costing me nothing) which takes me to the present...   
      
     I'd go back to (new generation) tape if there is something I can afford but   
   also crucially whether the things would be recognised by BA2k!  I have an old   
   scsi card in use (for type see below and other ones in a parts box pile   
   including a 2940) but wouldn't have a clue: firstly whether these present day   
   drives would work with it (or another one); secondly whether BA2k would drive   
   it properly if I got through the first hurdle??   
      
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