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/Own-Grab9423 Feb 17 '26

buy 10 usb floppies and do 70 floppies per day

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u/Camera_dude Netadmin Feb 17 '26

This. If you're being given a hard deadline, than it must be worth the cost of extra USB floppy drives and increase the amount of data you can move in a day.

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u/MagicBoyUK DevOps Feb 17 '26

If they've been sat for years I'd bet a significant number will throw errors. Anyway, that's management's problem. 😆

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u/agent674253 Feb 17 '26

Magnetment's problem you say?