On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:20:25PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:09:52PM -0700, Ben Bogart wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Im about to upgrade to 1.4 have have some questions about backing up my 
> > exsisting system. Is it best to create a seperate backup partition on the 
> > harddisk and write a script that creates tar-gz files and copies them? Or are 
> > there any existsing backup programs that would be better to use? As for 
> > storage devices I have some HD space left and a Zip Drive. Thanks!
> 
> It is surely wiser to use a medium that you can remove from the computer
> while doing the backup, so I'd vote for (some) ZIP media.

Help.
I'm really ready for the vacation I've announced two days ago...

this shoudl read:

It surely is wiser to use a medium for the backup that you can later
physically remove from the computer before you start the upgrade :-)

Regards,
	-is