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4.6 Using Floppies and Making Backups

    Floppies are usually used as backup media. If you don't have a tape drive connected to your system, floppy disks can be used (although they are slower and somewhat less reliable).

You may also use floppies to hold individual filesystems---in this way, you can mount the floppy to access the data on it.





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