uups :)
I call all those CDs ... wheater it is 'Finding Nemo' DVD for my daughter
or it is Playstation discs from my sons :))

DVD writer is what I meant.
Even my my little daugter does better then I do by calling it 'VeeDeeDee' :)) (DVD)

At the moment tapes are still more convinient for us (7.5 GB to back up daily). So I wld need two devices/discs daily.
Perhaps that will soon change.


>Hi Srdjan,
>
>I stopped using tape drives some years ago, went to CDs. Now I use DVDs, one day's backup is about 3.5GB, so DVDs are just perfect.
>
>>Hi Tore,
>>
>>I think they will become obsolete in near future,
>>with rapid development of flash drives and HQ rewritable CD's.
>>We are actually planning to go for CD backup in the near future.
>>
>>
>>>>>>Hi Jerry,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can have look at XDIR tool here in downloads.
>>>>>>There is xcopy() function there implemented in pure fox,
>>>>>>which can be used to backup your data anywhere you specify. (Except tape)
>>>>>
>>>>>Why except tape?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Hi Naomi,
>>>>
>>>>Tapes are sequential devices. They cannot be simply mapped as drives
>>>>and written with regular copy commands. (At least ones we use here)
>>>>In order to backup on tape you need to use some tape writing tool like
>>>>MS Backup or NT backup or respective proprietory softwares.
>>>
>>>Actually there are a few companies who make drivers for their tape streamers which make their tape appear as a local drive. But these drivers are a real PITA, you have to be very careful if you have it installed on your local computer. If you install a new tape with data on it, your computer will busy reading the tape for several minutes.....! I installed such a driver on my computer a few years ago, and I removed it a few minutes later.