was: <VV> computer geek help - backups No Corvair

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I bought a 500GB USB drive a while back for $129.
 
I backed everything up to that.... And do so regularly.
 
And we have 4 computers ona network at our house.
 
The USB drive is connected to one confuser but we back everythiing up to  it.
 
I consider $129 pretty darn cheap for what it bought.
 
In a message dated 10/19/2007 8:10:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
bryan at skiblack.com writes:

Hi  Folks,

Most folks don't realize until it happens - the most valuable  part of  
your computer is the data.  With DVD and CD burners and  cheap flash  
drives, there are quite a few options for backups.   There are also  
reasonable packages for doing backups - even a Sync  program will work  
(I use Chronosync for Macs and SyncToy for Windows  to do quicky  
backups to a $10 flash drive).  If you can output  to PDF, that is an  
ideal way to archive things that are important  (e.g. tax returns)  
that you may wish to read after the software is  gone.  Keep in mind  
that a mirror is *not* the same as a  backup.  If a glitch wipes out  
your mirrored hard drives, you  now have two useless drives.  For  
extra credit, consider  keeping a CD/DVD copy of your files at another  
location (mail to a  relative, drawer at work, etc.) and update that  
every  quarter.

--Bryan

On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:41 PM, Charles Lee  wrote:

> I backed up most of my stuff, so I didn't lose anything  except  
> little things I didn't think were important (but now  wish I had,  
> like my Outlook address  book).






Tim  Abney
Inland Empire Corvair Club



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