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Fall 2000, Volume III, Issue 2, Page 2 |
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Floppy Disk Backups Floppy disks have been around since the beginning of Personal Computers. First they were flexible 5¼ inch disks (thus the name floppy) and now they are mostly 3½ inch disks in hard plastic cases. Each floppy disk holds only 1.44 megabytes of information. You would not want to backup your entire hard drive on floppy disks. They are good only for backing up small amounts of data. On the other hand, they are inexpensive (aprox. 50¢ each) and readily available. Windows 95 & 98 comes with the Microsoft Backup program so there is no need to purchase anything else except a box of floppy disks. It is found under Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Backup.
In Microsoft Backup you specify "What to back up" (Check the Folders and/or files, in this example the "My Documents" and "MyFiles" folders will be backed up.) and "Where to back up" (A:\Backup.001 means create a backup file called Backup.001 on the floppy drive). After you finish specifying what to backup you can save the Backup Job for future use. (I have called it "Claude's Backup".) Page 2 of 6 |
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