I'm asking here because I can't find an active Iomega newsgroup, and this
seems to be the closest to an applicable group.

If any of you are using Zip disks for any length of time, how do you find
their reliability? I have files backed up to Zip daily that I'd rather not
lose. So far, so good. No errors. 1000% better than floppy.

TIA



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If you've never heard of 'the click of death' you may want to read this.....
http://grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm

grc is Gibson Research and is a good authority on technology. Back 'when'
before IDE came along and you had mfm or rll dive controllers besides the
drives themselves, you had to low level format your drive befor you could
use it.  You had to decide on an 'interleve' when formattng that would
affect performance. Steve Gibson wrote Spinwrite so you could reformat your
drive on the fly to refresh or alter your interleve.  Very bleeding edge at
the time.


"Ken Knecht" <kenkknot@deruknot.com> wrote in message
news:Xns969449BA67F20kenkderucom@140.99.23.22...
> I'm asking here because I can't find an active Iomega newsgroup, and this
> seems to be the closest to an applicable group.
>
> If any of you are using Zip disks for any length of time, how do you find
> their reliability? I have files backed up to Zip daily that I'd rather not
> lose. So far, so good. No errors. 1000% better than floppy.
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> --
> Untie the two knots to email me
>
> "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty, but of certainty." Nietzche
>

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I am not sure about zip drives but the best way to be sure you don't lose
files is to use more than one method of backup.

To safeguard files that you work with every day and protect them from
mistakes and file corruption try AJC Active Backup:
http://www.ajcsoft.com/AJCActBk.php

AJC Active Backup monitors the files you change on your PC and then
automatically and silently backs them up into a compact archive.

The archive stores multiple revisions of each file you edit.  This means you
can get back any version of a file giving you unlimited undo capabilities
and also you have a complete record of what you have been doing.  It also
has the built in capability to show you a comparison of what has changed.

--
Andrew Cutforth - AJC Software - www.ajcsoft.com
The best folder synchronize and directory compare tool available.
AJC Active Backup instantly archives every file you edit giving you
unlimited undo and automatic revision control.  Never lose your data again.

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Per Ken Knecht:
>If any of you are using Zip disks for any length of time, how do you find
>their reliability? I have files backed up to Zip daily that I'd rather not
>lose. So far, so good. No errors. 1000% better than floppy.

I've had a number of zip drives and would not trust them with critical data.
All failed one way or another in the end.
Google "Click Of Death".

If I could fit my backups on a zip drive, I'd supplement those backups with
repeated copies to CD and/or DVD stored offsite.   "Repeated" because those
things don't last forever and "offsite" because stuff happens...

Alternatively, or in addition, you could buy a few USB2 drives and do backup
s to
them - rotating the drives between your computer, someplace in the house not
connected to the computer, and your workplace.
--
PeteCresswell

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:12:03 GMT, Ken Knecht
<kenkknot@deruknot.com> wrote:

>I'm asking here because I can't find an active Iomega newsgroup, and this
>seems to be the closest to an applicable group.
>
>If any of you are using Zip disks for any length of time, how do you find
>their reliability? I have files backed up to Zip daily that I'd rather not
>lose.

So, how many zip drives do you have available ?
If your drive fails, all your backup data will become
unavailable.

If you have one zip-drive to spare, Murphy predicts that it will
fail between the moment that the first zip fails and the moment
you have retreived all your files. (No, no smiley there.
Intentionally, as this is a serious problem.)

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

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