[vox-tech] advice for floppy disks

[Ryan]

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I wrote a bash script to back up my floppies to a compressed file named=20
according to date. This has the advantage of being insensitive to format,=
 and=20
not requiring the disk to be mounted.

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#!/bin/bash
TIMESTAMP=3D$(date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S)
cat /dev/fd0 | gzip -9 > ~/backups/fd0.${TIMESTAMP}.img.gz

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On Tuesday, January 01 2002 09:42 pm, kabloom@ucdavis.edu wrote:
> My biggest suggestion for floppies is that you should never carry them
> loose in your pocket. When I used floppies in high school (last year) I
> found that floppies carried loose in my pocket died within a day, and
> floppies in floppy carriers lasted long enough that I can't recall losi=
ng
> data from one of them.
>
> Two other good floppy tricks. One: if the data is really important, put
> multiple copies on the same disk. The other: always back the floppies u=
p
> on a hard drive somewhere.
>
> And so it was written and so it was done (by Peter Jay Salzman
> <p@dirac.org>)
>
> > not for backup.  i need floppies.
> >
> >
> > begin Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
> >
> > > What I do for fast, reliable, cheap backup is mount hard drives in
> > > removable carriers.
> > >
> > > -- Rod
> > >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 01 January 2002 11:15 am, Henry House wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:31:50AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote=
:
> > > > > i'm sure someone here keeps track of this stuff...
> > > > >
> > > > > what's some really high-quality floppy disks brands?  i'd be
> > > > > willing to pay unreasonable prices just as long as they're
> > > > > reliable.
> > > > >
> > > > > i'm sick and tired of floppy disks dying on me.  what's the bes=
t
> > > > > brands to get?
> > > >
> > > > I would not use any type of removable winchester storage for data
> > > > too valuble to lose. That goes for floppies, zip cartriges, and
> > > > anything else that contains a rotating, flexible platter. By thei=
r
> > > > very nature these devices are mechanically unreliable. If you wan=
t
> > > > reliability, use tapes or CD-RW (which is actually pretty cheap
> > > > now).
> > > >
> > > > Failing that, I suggest you find the most expensive type availabl=
e
> > > > and go with that. Also, I would avoid any product made by Verbati=
m.
>
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