G'day Eric,

How's the potential baby going?

I haven't seen you for quite a while now, mainly
because I've been buisy being a dad :-)

I've also been busy doing a total overhaul of minkirri,
which is still underway. I've been setting up a new
HDD with a complete debian installation, which I'm 
going to swap over when I've finaly got the thing fully
configured and tested. It's going to be hard to do this 
with a minimum of disruption.

Part of the upgrade will add new features, but mainly it
will fix heaps of old, insecure software that is long 
overdue. It should also be a neater system to maintain
and keep up to date (debian's ftp software update feature 
works quite nicely).

Another thing I have been thinking about again lately is
backups. I have compiled a fairly extensive list of 
removable media technology; everything including CD-R, 
CD-PD, MO, Travan, DAT, Zip, Jaz, etc. If you want I can 
send you a summary of what I've found. I was going to
put the info in this post, but it started to get a bit 
big :-)

What is happening with your backup setup? Are you still
doing multi-volume full backups with your 2G QIC? Have 
you experimented with incremental backups at all? What
software are you using?

One of the drives I'm considering is a Segate TR-3, 1.6G
drive. The main thing stopping me is it uses a floppy drive
interface (yuk). Have you heard anything good/bad about 
these drives? After that is the 4.0G IDE/SCSI TR-4 or 
DAT DSS2 drives, but they cost heaps more.

ABO