Thank you Pat Janes your link is very helpfull.
The DV deck will save wear on the DV camera.
Pat Janes <not.RemoveThis@bloody.likely> wrote in message news:<not-6EF78C.23104507112003.RemoveThis@nntp-stjh-01-01.rogers.nf.net>...
> In article <814f6e3f.0311071810.68870a91.RemoveThis@posting.google.com>,
> brimacombep.RemoveThis@netscape.net (Peter Brimacombe) wrote:
>
> > My son has a camcorder with a mini dv tape. He says that he can buy a
> > dv deck that can read and write tapes. Can I backup the Mac to the
> > dv deck?
>
> You can probably use the DV camera as a backup device.
>
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