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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: OTRE: [TMG] Re: Back ups first
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:11:20 -0600
In-Reply-To: <MCENINJAIBODLHBJPKBMMEPKCEAA.jkwoodis@rogers.com>


Ken,
Another thing you can do if you have a home network and several
computers is back your data up to all those computers. If the house
burns, it might not help much, but if one hard drive dies, it will.

Teresa Ghee Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Wood [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:37 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: Back ups first

Over the years I have tried all sorts of methods of backing up. Floppy
disks
were fine when you only needed one or two, but when it got to be twenty
I
bought a tape drive. On my present computer that takes eight hours to
back
up most of the hard drive.

CR-R and CD-RW are much faster but not very convenient. You can't
schedule
it for offtime because it may take more than one disk. For my stuff it
takes
three CDs, and I have to be around to change them.

I finally bought a 60GB external hard drive. It installed in a snap.
Backing
up is like copying a file to another directory. It is so easy that I
regularly back up all my wife's files at the same time (we run a little
home
network). It is big enough to contain ten backups, if that were needed.
It
takes about twenty minutes to back up my important files. It cost
$CAN270
(about $US180).

I realize there are some disadvantages, such as not being able to store
a
second backup off-site. Once a month I make a backup on CD-RW and store
it
in a safe place.

Ken Wood


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