[Gllug] Viable back-up solutions for gigabytes?

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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Richard Jones moaned:
> I'm a bit concerned about storing data in a compressed format, ever
> since I backed up my minix partition onto floppies (circa '90) and one
> sector on floppy #4 died, resulting in a completely unrecoverable
> backup.

Looks like you need to make <http://parchive.sf.net/> part of your
backup system.

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