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From: "Sholder, Kevin L." <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] External Hard Drives
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:23:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: <011a01c6cee4$57f95060$6901a8c0@youro0kwkw9jwc>


Cheryl,

I'm a bit rigorous when it comes to back up...every time I finish a session,
I back up to one of my external backup devices, of which I have four that I
rotate every fourth session. Therefore, if I enter data for four days, I
have four different backups on four different devices, once of which goes
offsite every two weeks.

Flash drives are a great idea as well.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Cheryl Freeman [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 07:06 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] External Hard Drives

My only word of advice (and I am still evaluating a comprehensive backup
strategy - I am listening, Terry <G>). Alternate backups to more than one
medium. My 7 month old external drive had a head crash about 45 days ago,
and last week the drive where my projects reside crashed. Fortunately, I
had been backing both up to a second internal hard drive, and could restore
a project backup less than 2 weeks old. But it has been a powerful lesson.
:)


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Colton [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 2:41 PM
To:
Subject: [TMG] External Hard Drives

Hello All, I am contemplating storing all of my families history on an
external hard drive as I have had two crashes and was close to losing
information that I could not have replaced. Are there any tips I should be
aware of before proceding. Tks- Wayne


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