Automatic Backup of Network floppy drive?

hi.

i am a system admin.. actually floppy's have become non-reliable so what i want to do is when our employee's use the floppy to edit the files of whatever i want to store a copy of it so incase the floppy fails later we have a backup.but i want to make the backup on the server becuase it has a lot of memory so i want to backup a shared floppy drive automatically to the server without any intervention so even if someone puts in a floppy when i am not around it should make a backup immediately.?
is there any way to do that

hi there,

i am not sure that there is a way to automatically backup every floppy that a user puts in the machine but tbh you wouldn't want that just incase one of the disks had a virus on...

A much better way would be to encourage all users to backup the floppy themselves on their machine and then transfer to the server! Checking for viruses first of course

hth

RF

so there isnt any way???am not worried abt viruses i got antiviruses installed?actually using other media is a good suggestion but would cost a lot...as not many of our pc's have cdroms...if someone still has an answer please reply

i am 99% sure there is not a way to do what you want. Having a program run whenever a CD is inserted then that might be possible but not floppies as they are not detected on load. The user would still have to run a program to backup the disk.

Any if you are running a network properly then you should be more worried about viruses!

actually cant any program really backup on runtime and scan for floppies every 30 seconds if it finds it backup's or else waits

i don't know of any, and if there were you would have it running in the background of the machine all the time...using up system resources...seems a little wasteful to me.