19 High-capacity removable disk drives

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If you want to make backups on a high-capacity disk drive like the Iomega ZIP drive, I recommend creating an MSDOS or Linux filesystem on the drive, mounting the drive, and then using the filedev method for writing the archive to a file on the disk. It is a good idea to create a backup index file and to copy it onto the disk after the backup. The tverify tool can be used to verify the archive file which is created.

Note that the archive which is created must be small enough to fit on the high-capacity disk which is mounted. You cannot create multi-volume archives with this method. If you want to backup a large filesystem onto several high-capacity removable disks, I suggest that you divide the filesystem into multiple directory sets, each fitting on a single disk.

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