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is it still practical to backup a harddrive to floppy disks?
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| My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full. I
have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
likely to take? Thanks in advance.
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| Michael J. Leaver 2004-08-12, 5:45 pm |
| Ram wrote:
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full. I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
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Unless you have approximately 71,000 floppy disks handy (assuming
100GB), and a hell of a lot of time on your hands, no. I guess with some
compression you could get that down to 35,000 disks...assume 5 mins. per
disk to run the backup, that's about 121 days to perform the
backup...and a lot of money to buy those disks 
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-08-12, 5:45 pm |
| Get external USB/Firewire drives for backup.
Makes no sense to backup to floppies.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2o1auvF5rvbsU1@uni-berlin.de...
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full.
I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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| Toshi1873 2004-08-12, 5:45 pm |
| In article <2o1auvF5rvbsU1@uni-berlin.de>,
nospam@hotmail.com says...
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full. I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
Get an external USB/firewire drive (as mentioned by
others). Or drop a 2nd hard drive in.
Look again for a DVD-recordable drive, they come in lots
of colors now (generally beige, silver, black).
But the real key is that you need to differentiate
between backing up important data (usually will fit on a
single DVD, so you could use multiple RW DVDs backing up
to a diff one every week), backing up data that's not
important or replaceable (e.g. MP3s, movies can all be
re-ripped from the source), and backing up the operating
system.
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| Claudiu Spulber 2004-08-13, 2:45 am |
| You can try zip disks too even if those aren't so recommended. You can take
for example 100 zip disks of about 750 Mb. The easiest way it's to buy an
external hard drive, this way you won't have to stay too long to backup.
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Regards,
Claudiu Spulber
http://www.backup4all.com
"Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2o1auvF5rvbsU1@uni-berlin.de...
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full.
I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
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| Colby B Guilbeau 2004-08-28, 2:45 am |
| Do you have USB 2.0 or Firewire ports? Have you considered buying a
USB/Firewire hard drive? You really don't want to attempt this backup using
floppy disks. Well do the math conservatively speaking 100GB/floppy disk =
how many disks
(100*(2^30))/( 1.4*(2^20) ) = 73,142.85714
Actually this is probably too optimistic maybe only 1MB not 1.4...but it is
just absurd. Probably take weeks, it's not so much the slow floppy disk but
you have to swap them.
"Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2o1auvF5rvbsU1@uni-berlin.de...
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full.
I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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| James Nipper 2004-08-28, 7:45 am |
| Surely this is a troll...........
----James--
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"Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2o1auvF5rvbsU1@uni-berlin.de...
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full.
I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
>
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| hcddbz 2004-08-28, 5:45 pm |
| On 2004-08-12 09:51:37 -0400, "Ram" <nospam@hotmail.com> said:
> My harddrive has a capacity of 200GB, although it's only about half full. I
> have no CD/DVD drive because I couldn't find one to match my case and I
> don't want to fit a 2nd harddrive for fear that my first one would feel
> threatened. In short, I need to backup my harddrive to floppy disks. Is
> there software available to do this and how many disks and how long is it
> likely to take? Thanks in advance.
no,
Floppy are slow and unreleiable.
Get an eternal hardrive, dvd-rw/ram/+rw or tape drive.
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| J. Yazel 2004-08-29, 5:45 pm |
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>Get an eternal hardrive, dvd-rw/ram/+rw or tape drive.
Wow, where can I get that eternal harddrive?
I've been looking for one of them for a long time.
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