Re: Non-hard drive partitions on locked down server?

From: Michael Zawrotny (zawrotny_at_sb.fsu.edu)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: 8 Mar 2005 14:02:52 GMT

On 8 Mar 2005 06:11:56 GMT, Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> wrote:
>
> Zip sounds like another possibility, then. I don't have any experience with
> the devices personally. Do they tend to be resistant to corruption? For
> instance, I really wouldn't trust a floppy disk for r/w over long periods
> -- add to that the possibility of abrupt power loss. Do Zip drives tend to
> corrupt data in such situations?

I, personally, wouldn't use a zip in this situation. The physical
media is much like a floppy's. We use them a fair amount for
user-level backup of small sections of data that are fairly rapidly
changing (i.e. a weekly full backup and an incremental or two is not
sufficient). They work pretty well for that, but over time their
performance degrades and the disk eventually becomes unreadable. This
is over a time period where large chunks of the disk are overwritten
on the order of 100-200 times.

On the couple of occasions that I've needed to do something like what
was originally stated, I usually wind up leaving the hard drive in the
system and only partitioning a small fraction of it.

Mike 

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Michael Zawrotny
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