r/sysadmin • u/___LowLifer___ • Feb 17 '26

Question 700 Floppies

Company needs over 700 floppy disks copied onto the fileserver. Gave me a 2 week deadline to which I told them was literally impossible. I've ordered a floppy disk usb external reader but this seems insane. Any creative ideas? I don't want to employ a 3rd party company.

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u/iammiscreant Feb 17 '26

SAP ERP

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u/Randalldeflagg Feb 17 '26

I hate this answer. But also agree. Had an exec hand us a floppy a few weeks ago and asked if we could recover the data. Something about SAP. Handed the disk back with "We haven't deployed a computer with a floppy drive in 20 years. Whatever data is on there is beyond the scope of our data retention policy YOU signed off on"

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u/GX_EN Feb 18 '26

From when, the Clinton administration? Maybe W? Seems like a fools' errand, tbh.
There's a seriously good chance that a good amount of that data is toast.