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by veerkumar228

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1. I have already 20Gb HDD in my system i create folders to all my friends and i ask them to keep all files in that folder, and I would like to take cd writer to write the backup for everyweek...
2. My system configuration is 128 MB ram, 20GbHDD, PIII 750 Mhg processor, i would add cd writer in this system, OS is NT Server. Please give for any upgradation for my system.

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by pineapplebob

I would skip the CD writer as it will only hold maybe 700Megs. It is not fast nor efficient for backup. I would suggest a good tape device and tapes. They are faster, and much greter in capacity. If for example your friends fill the disk to 10GB, you will have to use maybe 14 CDs for back up, which you will have to swap each one, and plan for a spanning method. At best you could ZIP the directories etc, but that too shall cause a great deal of system use versus the tape backup.

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Bob Collins

by blaine moore

If you use CD backup, you'll have to do the backup manually every week. If you use the tape backup, you could use the task manager to automatically do your backup for you when it is conveniant and not very likely that you would have a lot of users accessing the system. Then you would just have to replace the tape every week and make sure there is a fresh one in there.

by bigcheif

If the information you are backing up is valuable and cannot be lost I suggest you buy to more expensive and reliable dat drive. They cost more but are much better, faster. If you only want to backup the user files a CD-R would be ok until you get to the point of having alot of files. This would also mean more time spent backing the files and making sure you have them all.

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