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March 17th, 2004, 12:17 AM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
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Every time the computer crashes and I reformat the HD, I swear that I'll always make backups....
So far the backups isn't taking up very much storage in my home...actually there are no backups.
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March 17th, 2004, 05:14 AM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
not often enough
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Every time the computer crashes and I reformat the HD, I swear that I'll always make backups....
So far the backups isn't taking up very much storage in my home...actually there are no backups.
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March 18th, 2004, 02:38 AM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
What do you guys think about portable Hard Drives?
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March 18th, 2004, 08:08 AM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
Well, at work I back up my stuff about once a week. At home, I hardly ever back up. A long time ago, I used to back stuff up on floppy disks. It was a good thing I did that because a few years ago, both my computers got stolen when someone broke into the house. I still have my data because of those floppy disks. But now with file sizes getting bigger, floppy disks are just too small. I don't have a CD burner so I don't have a good way to back stuff up. Maybe I'll buy a flash card reader and a bunch of 256-MB flash memory cards or something to back stuff up on, I don't know yet. Or I guess I might get a CD burner.
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March 18th, 2004, 08:19 AM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
I should get into the habit of backing up files at least once a week. But how can aford CD/RW disks.
I want DVDR.
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March 18th, 2004, 01:25 PM
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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
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What do you guys think about portable Hard Drives?
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They are great, My brother has an 80gig external USB HD that he uses for backups. Actually it's one of those universal USB caddy units that can hold any standard PC IDE unit like a HD, ZipDrive, Floppy, even a removable HD unit. It simply has it's own power cord and hooks up to the PC via a USB cable. Plug it in and it works like any other drive. It appears in 'explorer' as "USB External Drive (F " (or what ever letter follows the Last Local drive on your system.)
..and they are portable enough to take with you anywhere. Now that is a very good thing. The only downside is that the transfer rate is something like 128kb/sec (aka 10 megabits per second) but for backup, that's not too bad.
Nuf said, Cheers!
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