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FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 6-25-04: Dead Media

June 25, 2004 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Dear FileSlinger™ clients, colleagues, and friends: I've been searching the Web for interesting items on backups and came across an article discussing the frequent failure of backup systems (due to one reason or another) and the even-more-frequent failure of businesses and individuals to have backup systems. One response written to this article was from a developer at a major storage management … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CD & DVD Backups, Tape Backup Tagged With: dead media, DVD, Iomega

FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 4-23-04: DVD-writer & REV drive

April 26, 2004 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

I have just ordered a combination USB/Firewire CD/DVD writer and will let you know how it works once it arrives. Until recently, DVD writers were more expensive than external hard drives, but this one was only $180 and came with a rewritable DVD. I'm thinking it's a good option for backing up those items which change occasionally and are too large to fit on a CD—not to mention for producing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CD & DVD Backups, Removable Drives Tagged With: DVD, Iomega, JAZ drive, REV drive

FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-7-03: FTP, Labels, & Mac Backups

November 7, 2003 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Dear FileSlinger clients, colleagues, and friends: I've been shifting files from my ancient Mac PowerBook over to my new(ish) Windows XP machine in order to put them onto ZIP disks and be able to take the PowerBook (still completely functional apart from a damaged floppy drive) to the computer recycling people. In the course of going over these files, I came across something that might interest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CD & DVD Backups, Mac Backups Tagged With: .MAC, Avery, CD labels, FTP, Iomega, PowerBook, Retrospect, Technostress

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