I guess we should get off this subject before being scolded for being
off-topic (although computers and this listserve are forever linked).

Thanks for all your suggestions and input via Conch-L and privately.  One
more comment - MS Windows' back-up program also compresses and spans disks.
But not as fast as WinZip.

More input and comments are invited, but click on the e-mail address below
to reply.

Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas E. Eichhorst <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Missing E-mails (bad drives)


> The deal about the zip drives is you can use them for backup and to access
> your files.  They are very fast, its like having another 100meg hard
drive.
> As a backup they are really a bit limited to special files and not an
entire
> system like you can do with a tape (although they come with a handy little
> program for spanning disks).  The importance in all of this is to select
> some knid of back up system.  Re-entering thousands of shells into a
> database may be fun to some but is not something I wish to do.
>
> Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
>