Re: Backups to CD?

In news:xn0ehnn6a6esm4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jeff Gaines whispered softly in my ear...:
> On 25/01/2006 jamps wrote:
>
>>> She's already got an extra Drive (Partition), with loads of Space,
>>> sitting ready & waiting, to store stuff on, before putting it onto
>>> CD/DVD.
>>
>> :-) I just knew that that extra drive (partition) was there for a
>> reason. I didn't know what to do with it!!
>
>
> While you're thinking this through just bear in mind that it is on the
> same physical drive. It will protect you in some circumstances (e.g. a
> corrupt file) but not in others (e.g. the whole drive going wotsits
> up).
>
> I don't want to complicate the issue but a physically separate drive
> is a better bet, whether it's fitted inside the PC or it's external.

and what do we back that up to - in case it goes wrong? LOL

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Ticketty᧧


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