Frank Goebel
February 1st, 2007, 10:17 PM
Bye, bye floppy UK retailer stops stocking floppy disks (http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=180278)
From the Kim Komando (http://www.komando.com) Show Daily News e-mail:
Britain’s largest chain of computer stores will stop selling floppy disks. PC World will sell disks currently in stock but won’t order more. The demand for floppy disks has declined due to their small capacity. The average MP3 file won’t fit on a floppy.
A large league backup will take up most of a floppy, but a single floppy won't be able to carry sequential backups of large leagues. As I've mentioned in other threads, and it does bear out in responses there, floppies just aren't used much at all any more. Enter the flash drives with no moving parts and enormous comparitive storage space.
The backup process of BLS still seems to want to default to floppies, in one instance when a default backup location can't be found.
I wonder if it would be possible to have BLS perform the actual backup to a flash drive, and have that backup file copied directly to the hard drive's "Backup" folder (C:\BLS 2007\Backup) at the same time, perhaps calling it a "mirrored" backup. The user would either navigate to whatever external device desired, or have that the default (and inserted and mounted) and the backup process would place that same .ZIP backup in both locations. One caveat I can see is that the protection "do you want to overwrite this existing file?" would either have to be done for both devices, or ignored on the mirroring.
From the Kim Komando (http://www.komando.com) Show Daily News e-mail:
Britain’s largest chain of computer stores will stop selling floppy disks. PC World will sell disks currently in stock but won’t order more. The demand for floppy disks has declined due to their small capacity. The average MP3 file won’t fit on a floppy.
A large league backup will take up most of a floppy, but a single floppy won't be able to carry sequential backups of large leagues. As I've mentioned in other threads, and it does bear out in responses there, floppies just aren't used much at all any more. Enter the flash drives with no moving parts and enormous comparitive storage space.
The backup process of BLS still seems to want to default to floppies, in one instance when a default backup location can't be found.
I wonder if it would be possible to have BLS perform the actual backup to a flash drive, and have that backup file copied directly to the hard drive's "Backup" folder (C:\BLS 2007\Backup) at the same time, perhaps calling it a "mirrored" backup. The user would either navigate to whatever external device desired, or have that the default (and inserted and mounted) and the backup process would place that same .ZIP backup in both locations. One caveat I can see is that the protection "do you want to overwrite this existing file?" would either have to be done for both devices, or ignored on the mirroring.