re: XY and on-line sessions

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Otis:
>Ah, but you *can* remove the hard-drive backup. There are several mountings
>with removable HD frames that turn any half-height drive into a removable
>cartridge. I have four backup drives, two containing duplicates of my data
>base and other essentials, while the other two back up work docs and programs.
>  The backup drives (1 gig, 850 meg, 500 meg, and 200 meg) were previously
>my main drives. And my current 2.6-gigger will become a backup as soon as I
>finish installing the 4-gig drive that arrived yesterday.
Good point.
>I don't use a backup program;
>ascii and binary data is just copied to the removable drive, using an app
>that looks at the date/time stamp and overwrites older files.
Is there any advantage in this over using xcopy /e /m /s?

Have you, or anyone else, used the "zip" drives that have 200 meg removable
cartridges?

Regards,
Harry

     Harry Binswanger
      hb@xxxxxxxx