Re: OT - Technonumpty back up

In message <p0u353he7a7kp1db2musd5aiurntq22icr@xxxxxxx>, Jo Lonergan <jolonergan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:09:31 +0200, Gumrat <Gumrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After the recent hard drive crash disaster chez Gumrat, we have bought
something called a "My Book Essential hard drive" for the express
purpose of backing up to it. It's a UBS (sorry, USB) thingy. I'd like to
make regular back-ups and I can more or less understand the instructions
in Windows XP, but I've no idea how to schedule it to back up regularly,
or how to just add things which have changed in the past week, or maybe
sort of record over the last back-up (IYSWIM, clearly my understanding
is limited), so that we don't back up the same stuff again and again, or
is that the point?

I recently bought a hard drive for this very purpose, but am beginning
to wonder whether I really need to back up everything, rather than
just My Documents, the bits and pieces on my desktop, and my email and
news clients, all of which will fit onto a a flash drive (or whatever
the things are called that fit on a key ring.

I was actually thinking of reformatting the hard drive and installing
Ubuntu on it instead, just for fun. Have I spent too long in umra?

Haven't you better things to do on your trip to these frozen shores: or is that the problem?

(I don't know what's happened to our Calgary correspondent but I'm told its snowing just south of Calgary today (lunch time in their time: mid-evening in ours)

Sincerely Chris
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Chris McMillan
http://www.chinavision.org.uk/
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