Re: OT Back up your hard drives!

Because I'm backing up to external hard drives, I back up everything. I have
the room, it's just as easy to set the backup program to do it, and I back
up in the middle of the night so I don't care how long it takes.

I also make an extra backup of *really* critical data (my accounting stuff
at work, my checkbook at home) onto either CDs or USB keys, which I then
store offsite (home stuff stored at work, work stuff stored at home). Since
CDs and USB keys don't hold a lot, I just back up the data.
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"Donna in Idaho" <dnnaten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Do you back up everything (programs, etc., etc.), or just data?
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"Kathy Applebaum" <KathyA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lots and lots of ways to do it -- I'm sure others here will chime in with
their favorites. :)

First, you need to have something to back up onto. My personal favorite
is an external hard drive, because it's fast, cheap, and easy. Won't help
you if your house burns down, because the HD will burn with it, but it is
a great back up for most other purposes. If you don't want to pop for an
external HD, you can back up onto CDs. But that is a mild PITA (Pain In
The A**), and if backing up is a mild PITA, you'll put it off and put it
off. Then you'll be sorry.*grin* Best to find an external hard drive on
sale (or on freecycle!).

Windoze has a program called backup built right in. On my computer you
click on "start", then "all programs", then "accessories", then "system
tools", then backup. The good thing is it's cheap (ie free), because it's
already on your system. It will walk you through the process. I hear the
current versions work pretty well -- I decided against it long ago for
various reasons, and haven't tried it again, so I can't tell you much
more about it.

At work here I use both Norton Ghost and Dantz' Retrospect. Both are more
expensive than the Windoze program (ie they aren't free), but they work
well. Ghost is nice because you can use your machine while you're backing
up. Retrospect has worked very well for me for many, many years, on both
Mac and Windoze. I set it, I forget it, and it does its thing every
night. Perfect for me.

If you have a Mac and you have .mac ("dot-mac"), there's some backup
stuff built in to that. The nice thing is you're backing up to Apple's
computers somewhere other than your house, so you're protected if your
house burns down. The bad thing is dot-mac has a yearly charge. Nice if
you're using all the services, but pricy just for backup.

Did I help? Did I confuse? Let me know!

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"Vikki In WA State" <palnpartneratsawdotnet> wrote in message
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How does one go about backing up their hard drive?
Not a joke I really have no idea. Thanks

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Vikki in WA State

The worst day of my life was the day I got
the AARP invitation to join. Honestly, most
days I don't even feel like a grownup yet.

"Kathy Applebaum" <KathyA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm coming up for air after four days of computer h*ll...

Friday morning at work, our main computer wouldn't boot up. Which means
none
of the cash registers will boot up. Which means we're writing up
receipts
by
hand, and have to run to the shelves to look up each price of each
item.
Grrr.... Long story short, I've spent the last four days on the phone
with
tech support, installing new hardware, installing new software,
installing
more new hardware, back on the phone with tech support, installing more
new
software... you get the idea.

So why haven't I shot myself? Because I had a backup of ALL the data. I
knew
eventually I'd get it all back running, and I did. Whew!

The moral of the story is back up your data, and do it regularly.
Better
yet, set your computer up so that it will do it for you. Because your
computer WILL crash. All your email, calendars, photos, music,
bookmarks,
everything will be gone if you don't back up. So back up now, and then
go
have some chocolate for being clever enough to back up. :)

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